Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables received mostly favorable reviews from critics, its themes of economic inequality resonating with critics.[1] Daryl Sanders described the record in The East Nashvillian as a “one-man Occupy Wall Street movement.”[2] In his review for Rolling Stone, Jody Rosen called it “Occupy Nashville.”[3] Writing in Relix, Jewly Hight said Snider “plays the part of a winking, pot-stirring anarchist” on the album.[4] In a piece for NPR, Ken Tucker said, “If one line could sum up the album, it's ‘It ain't the despair that gets you / It's the hope.’"[5] Both Rolling Stone[6] and Paste[7] named it one of the fifty best albums of 2012.
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