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| ADM = 6.3/10<ref name="ADM">{{Cite web|title=Notes On A Conditional Form by The 1975 reviews|url=http://www.anydecentmusic.com/review/11408/The-1975-Notes-On-A-Conditional-Form.aspx|publisher=[[AnyDecentMusic?]]|accessdate=19 May 2020}}</ref>

| MC = 6869/100<ref name="MC">{{Cite web|title=Notes on a Conditional Form by The 1975 Reviews and Tracks|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/notes-on-a-conditional-form/the-1975|publisher=[[Metacritic]]|accessdate=20 May 2020}}</ref>

| rev1 = ''[[Clash (magazine)|Clash]]''

| rev1score = 8/10<ref name="clash">{{Cite web|title=The 1975 – Notes On A Conditional Form|url=https://www.clashmusic.com/reviews/the-1975-notes-on-a-conditional-form|last=Blanchet|first=Brenton|date=17 May 2020|work=[[Clash (magazine)|Clash]]|accessdate=17 May 2020}}</ref>

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''Notes on a Conditional Form'' has received a polarised critical reception. At [[Metacritic]], which assigns a [[Standard score|normalised]] rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an [[Weighted arithmetic mean|average]] score of 6869, based on twelvethirteen reviews.<ref name="MC"/> Aggregator [[AnyDecentMusic?]] gave it 6.3 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus.<ref name="ADM"/>

Reviewing for ''[[NME]]'', Dan Stubbs gave the album a perfect score, describing it as a "go-anywhere, do-anything record"; he particularly praised its diversity of musical styles and Healy's confessional lyrics as "totally, refreshingly unfiltered."<ref name="nme-review"/> Similarly, ''[[The Times]]'' commended "the sheer force and variety of the writing."<ref name="times"/> ''[[Clash (magazine)|Clash]]''{{'}}s Brenton Blanchet called it "lyrically playful and musically a step away from being confused for a compilation album of the best tracks this group has ever released."<ref name="clash"/> He also commended the group's ability to balance multiple genres and wrote that the project was "destined to be the soundtrack to a summer spent indoors." Conversely, ''[[The Line of Best Fit]]''{{'}}s Claire Biddles panned the record as "flat, directionless and inessential", deeming its lyrics vacuous and tracklist bloated.<ref name="lobf"/> Roisin O'Connor of ''[[The Independent]]'' condemned it as "a smug farrago in which each track grates against the next like rusted gears."<ref name="independent-review"/>