driving in her car is interspersed with flashbacks of Baron-Gracie's trysts with an unseen lover. The sixth single from the album, "Black", was released on 14 August 2018. The song premiered on Beats1. "One More Time" was released on 13 September 2018 as the final single from the album. A music video for "One More Time" was released on 17 September 2018, which was directed by the duo Sophia + Robert, sees Pale Waves perform the song in a small red room. In August 2018, Pale Waves received a Music Export Growth Scheme (MEGS) grant from the Department for International Trade, which helped offset the cost of the band's international touring. To promote My Mind Makes Noises in the United States, Pale Waves performed "Eighteen" on the 14 November 2018 episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers. The band also embarked on a three-month tour of North America that stretched from October 26 to December 6; at the start of 2019, the band subsequently embarked on the Music for Cars Tour, opening for the 1975. Critical reception The record received mostly positive reviews from music critics. At review aggregation website Metacritic the album has an average score of 61 out of 100 indicating "generally favorable reviews" based on 10 reviews. Fellow music aggregator Any Decent Music? likewise gave the album an average score of 6.2/10. Dork magazine gave the album a perfect score; reviewer Stephen Ackroyd called the album "a glorious coronation, plain and simple" and noted that My Mind Makes Noises was a record of "such assured confidence it belies just how raw Pale Waves still are". Sean Ward of the Line of Best Fit gave the album a highly positive review and praised the band's ambition to resurrect guitar music: "As we are constantly reminded guitar music is long deceased, four musicians arrive who look, aptly, as though they have come back from the dead". Ward concluded that "My Mind Makes Noises is both immediate and idiosyncratic", and that while "Pale Waves' presence may be gloomy ... their songwriting and ambition could not be brighter". Writing for DIY magazine, Rachel Finn argued that this record proved Pale Waves to be "a band keen to subvert your expectations", whose debut album was "filled to the brim with hooky pop choruses centred around that well-trodden songwriting topic of falling in and out of love". Finn noted that the record "show[ed]