Not to Disappear

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	7.4/10[6]
Metacritic	74/100[7]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[8]
The A.V. Club	B[9]
Billboard	[10]
The Guardian	[11]
NME	4/5[12]
The Observer	[13]
Pitchfork	6.7/10[1]
Q	[14]
Rolling Stone	[15]
Uncut	8/10[16]

Not to Disappear received generally positive reviews from critics.^[7] Annie Zaleski of The A.V. Club found that Daughter's "brutal lyrical honesty" sets them apart from musical antecedents such as The Cure, PJ Harvey and Beach House.^[9] Sonic Seducer said that the band had created a dynamic mixture of indie pop, folk and shoegaze that reflected influences from bands such as London Grammar and Massive Attack.^[2] Marcy Donelson of AllMusic called the album "elegant, moving, and often beautiful", as well as sufficiently dynamic despite its reliance on "sound-defining delay, a dark tone palette, and friable vocals".^[8] Rolling Stone's Amy Rose Spiegel was more critical, finding that the minimal instrumentation "can highlight the monotony of Tonra's gorgeous, but largely static, vocal phrasing".^[15]