• Record Label: Slip
  • Release Date: Nov 25, 2016
Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 9
  2. Negative: 0 out of 9
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  1. Nov 30, 2016
    80
    The result is an unpredictable, captivating listening experience.
  2. 80
    Remain Calm’s 13 tracks pass in a brief 28 minutes, the shortest of these contorted vignettes lasting just the same number of seconds. Each is it its own entity, a different shade of light and colour, a different lifeworld entirely.
  3. Dec 5, 2016
    77
    Even as its mood slides from pensive to morose to quietly exuberant, this remains throughout one of the more enjoyable experimental releases this year.
  4. Dec 1, 2016
    74
    Even as an experimental playground, Remain Calm is clearly the work of two people with a lot of ideas, versatility and musicianship. This first release hints at what's possible for this dream pairing.
  5. Uncut
    Jan 31, 2017
    70
    The music here should captivate anyone who ever imagined what a Burial remix of Arthur Russell's World Of Echo might resemble. [Feb 2017, p.33]
  6. Dec 13, 2016
    70
    This whole album pulses with the emotivity of a cybernetic rainforest.
  7. The Wire
    Nov 30, 2016
    70
    Totalling a scant half hour, the album’s fleeting length leaves me wondering whether some tracks exhaust all potential within their mayfly-like timespans. But it captures a moment, and judging by the collaborative rapport between Levi and Coates it suggests, hopefully it’ll be the first of many. [Nov 2016, p.59]
  8. Nov 30, 2016
    70
    Despite its sub-30 minute run-time, Remain Calm packs a punch.
  9. Nov 30, 2016
    60
    As a whole, Remain Calm dies too quickly, leaving the listener hanging on the sandy, sunset-lit horizon of 'Mob of Waters'; 'I’ll Keep Going' stretches its melancholic (and mostly static) air a minute too long; and while the concept of 'Xhill Stepping' as dissected electro amuses on paper, its dry deserted dancehall yields nothing but empty space.

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