"...Strictly speaking, Ultra doesn’t end there—in a very 1990s moment, there’s a brief hidden instrumental, “Junior Painkiller,” that follows after a short gap—but “Insight” is the ultimate counterbalance to “Barrel of a Gun,” an exchange of fraught desperation and on the brink feelings delivered at high volume for maximum impact, for something else entirely. It is reductive to say that it and Ultra as a whole was Depeche all grown up, but there is a feeling of hard-earned experience, of moving beyond younger behavior that courted disaster. Ultra is an album for reflective nights remembering past selves, a beautifully synthesized combination of talents making music that reflects experience without being trapped by it."

- Pitchfork