Editing Hard Normal Daddy (section)

== Reception ==
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="allmusic" />
| rev2 = ''[[Muzik]]''
| rev2score = 7/10<ref name="muzik">{{cite magazine|title=Squarepusher: Hard Normal Daddy (Warp)|url=http://www.muzikmagazine.co.uk/issues/muzik024_may_1997.pdf|magazine=[[Muzik]]|issue=24|last=Howe|first=Rupert|date=May 1997|page=112|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220403112019/http://www.muzikmagazine.co.uk/issues/muzik024_may_1997.pdf|archive-date=3 April 2022|access-date=17 July 2022}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[NME]]''
| rev3score = 6/10<ref name="nme1997">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/squarepusher-ihard-normal-daddyi-warpcdlp|title=Squarepusher: Hard Normal Daddy (Warp/CD/LP)|magazine=[[NME]]|last=Crysell|first=Andy|date=3 May 1997|accessdate=8 April 2020|url-access=subscription|via=[[Rock's Backpages]]}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev4score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{sfn|Wolk|2004|p=773}}
}}

''Hard Normal Daddy'' received positive reviews upon release. In a contemporary review, ''[[Muzik]]'' critic Rupert Howe praised ''Hard Normal Daddy'' as an album of "style, wit and crafty ingenuity", albeit one that "isn't always quite as clever as it would like to think it is".<ref name="muzik"/> Writing for ''[[NME]]'', Andy Crysell noted Jenkinson's "passion for jazz that separates him from that other most weirdy and beardy of dance warriors" but called the album "schizophrenic", expressing frustration at its "high-velocity experimentation" and perceived emphasis on virtuosity.<ref name="nme1997" />

''NME'' placed ''Hard Normal Daddy'' at number 34 on its list of best albums of 1997.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/bestalbumsandtracksoftheyear/1997|title=Albums and Tracks of the Year for 1997|website=NME|accessdate=20 April 2015}}</ref> ''[[The Wire (magazine)|The Wire]]'' named it among the best albums of the year.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://thewire.co.uk/archive/1997-rewind|title=1997 Rewind|magazine=[[The Wire (magazine)|The Wire]]|issue=167|date=January 1998|accessdate=5 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130621224243/http://thewire.co.uk/archive/1997-rewind|archive-date=21 June 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> In December 1998, ''[[Alternative Press (magazine)|Alternative Press]]'' ranked ''Hard Normal Daddy'' at number 54 on its list of the 90 best albums of the 1990s.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The 90 Greatest Albums of the 90's|magazine=[[Alternative Press (magazine)|Alternative Press]]|issue=125|date=December 1998}}</ref>