Seek Magic

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	8.0/10[3]
Metacritic	86/100[4]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[5]
DIY	9/10[6]
Drowned in Sound	9/10[7]
MusicOMH	[8]
NME	8/10[9]
Now	4/5[10]
Pitchfork	8.3/10[11]
Q	[12]
The Sunday Times	[13]
Uncut	[14]

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, Seek Magic received an average score of 86, based on 9 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".^[4] The album has an 8.0 rating on review aggregator website AnyDecentMusic? and is certified an "ADM Chart Topper".^[3]

Seek Magic was awarded the title of "Best New Music" by Pitchfork, with critic Ian Cohen praising the album as "achingly gorgeous dance-pop that captures both the joy of nostalgia and the melancholic sense that we're grasping for good times increasingly out of reach".^[11] In a 2019 retrospective piece on chillwave for Stereogum, Cohen cited Seek Magic as "probably the best" chillwave album released in 2009, "and, by definition, probably the greatest chillwave album of all time".^[15]

Notes

• On vinyl pressings of the album, the running order of "Pink Stones" and "Stop Talking" is reversed.