Critical Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| BBC | (highly favourable) |
| Drowned In Sound | (2/10) |
| The Irish Times | |
| NME | (3/10) |
| Planet Sound | (5/10) |
| PopMatters | (3/10) |
| Pitchfork Media | (3.2/10) |
| Rockfeedback | |
| State.ie | (favourable) |
| This Is Fake DIY | (4/10) |
Media response to Intimacy Remixed was generally negative. Emily Tartanella of PopMatters explained that the remixers' efforts ultimately make Bloc Party's work "less engaging, less meaningful". Ben Patashnik of NME stated that the album is largely monotonous and includes too many pedestrian experiments in dance music. Drowned in Sound's Chris Power indicated that "in putting their names to the album Bloc Party seem to be saying they either don't care about what they ask fans to spend their money on or they don't know much about electronic music".
BBC's Lou Thomas was more receptive and commented that Intimacy Remixed is unprecedented in its field and entirely better than Intimacy. James Hendicott of State.ie described the album as "something special" that should appeal to both Bloc Party fans and dance music lovers due to its "highly listenable, subtly energetic sound". Pitchfork Media's Ian Cohen was largely disappointed with the record and concluded, "Remix albums all but acknowledge their own inessentiality—why not take more chances when only the diehards are going to subject themselves to 60 minutes of someone else's idea of what Intimacy could sound like?"
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