At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Tomorrow Right Now received an average score of 73% based on 14 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[1]
Charles Spano of AllMusic gave the album 3.5 stars out of 5, calling it "a catchy but challenging mix of Beans' almost academic flow and crisp, unlikely samples and electronics."[2] Julianne Escobedo Shepherd of Pitchfork gave the album a 7.1 out of 10, commenting that "Tomorrow pays homage to the gods of early 80s drum machines in a method consistent with Antipop Consortium: It melds the elements of current hip-hop with the Warp label's signature Powerbook programming."[4]