Critical Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| allmusic | |
| Melody Maker | (favourable) |
| NME | |
| Q | |
| Vox | |
| Entertainment Weekly | A |
| Spin | (favourable) |
Upon its release the album was unanimously praised in the mainstream music press. Writing in Melody Maker, Paul Lester stated: "Each song is crammed with elaborate details and merits a treatise. Very basically, we're talking Europop, my all-time favourite genre. The overall effect is one of swirling magnificence". He concluded that Electronic was "one of the greatest albums ever made".
In the NME David Quantick wrote: "This is a pretty 1990s sort of a record, fresh as a daisy and wearing huge new oxblood Doc Martens", while Keith Cameron in Vox said: "Electronic is simply a 100 per cent pure distillation of Marr and Sumner's respective talents. The hit single 'Get the Message' has it in a nutshell: it breaks no new ground; it simply achieves perfection".
The album received the maximum five stars in Q from Phil Sutcliffe, who wrote: "its strength is in conflict... The inexorable pounding of the beatbox versus the fragile sadness of Sumner's voice and the he's/she's leaving stories; the symmetry of the synthesized or sampled sounds versus the sheer blood and bone physicality of Marr's guitar".
Electronic was also remarked upon in the United States. In Spin magazine, Ted Friedman regarded the album as "impressive", while Entertainment Weekly called it "irresistibly tuneful".
At the end of 1991, NME and Melody Maker ranked it 13 and 15 respectively in their top albums of the year.
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