Editing Rotting Piñata (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r209251}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Martin Popoff|Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal]]''
| rev2score = 7/10<ref>{{cite book |last1=Popoff |first1=Martin |author-link1=Martin Popoff |title=The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties |publisher=[[Collector's Guide Publishing]] |year=2007 |location=[[Burlington, Ontario]], [[Canada]] |isbn=978-1-894959-62-9 |page=421}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="EOPM">{{cite book|editor-last=Larkin|editor-first=Colin|editor-link=Colin Larkin|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2006|publisher=[[MUZE]] |volume=7 |edition=4th|isbn=978-0-19-531373-4|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music |pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofpo0007unse/page/672 672–673] |chapter=Sponge}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Kerrang!]]''
| rev4score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Shiels |first=Liam |date=September 2, 1995 |title=Albumz |magazine=[[Kerrang!]] |publisher=[[EMAP]] |issue=561|page=44}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[MusicHound|MusicHound Rock]]''
| rev5score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="MH">{{cite book |last=Fuoco |first=Christina |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1999 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/musichoundrockes0000unse_j0b4/page/1072 1072] |isbn=1-57859-061-2 |chapter=Sponge}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[The Village Voice]]''
| rev6score = {{Rating-Christgau|dud}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau |date=January 23, 1996 |title=Consumer Guide |url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv196-96.php |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=[[The Village Voice]] |via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref>
| noprose = yes
}}
''Rotting Piñata'' received mostly positive reviews. However, [[AllMusic]] staff writer [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] said that the album was derivative of [[Pearl Jam]] or [[Stone Temple Pilots]], with a few good songs but otherwise featuring "half-finished ideas".<ref name="allmusic"/> ''[[Trouser Press]]'' was more positive about the album, noting "[[Plowed (song)|Plowed]]" and [[Molly (16 Candles Down the Drain)|"Molly"]] as having "catchy hooks and hummable choruses" while also being "colored by murky sonic structures that layer a bit of lead around their listener-friendly cores." They also wrote "Elsewhere on ''Rotting Piñata'', Sponge shows an affinity for density and drone— particularly in 'Pennywheels' and the metallic chug of 'Neenah Menasha'— while 'Giants' explores tense instrumental dynamics."<ref name="TP">{{cite web |title=Sponge |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/sponge/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=January 19, 2021}}</ref>