Platform (album)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	7.9/10[7]
Metacritic	81/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[8]
The Guardian	[9]
The Irish Times	[10]
NME	8/10[11]
Pitchfork	8.7/10[12]
Q	[13]
Resident Advisor	4.0/5[14]
Rolling Stone	[15]
Spin	7/10[16]
Uncut	9/10[17]

Winston Cook-Wilson of Pitchfork wrote that "Platform may turn out to be the most thought-provoking experimental electronic music release of the year."[12] Laurie Tuffrey of The Quietus wrote that "in so solidly refuting musical clichés, it can genuinely lay claim to the oft-used description forward-facing."[18] The Guardian's Tshepo Mokoena wrote that "[Herndon] turns cold, lifeless synthetic beats into disconcerting, disjointed rhythms that glitch and collapse on each other", describing the album as "gloriously avant garde and fiercely inventive."[9] Drowned in Sound wrote that "at once Herndon’s most accessible and most adventurous record, this is digital age avant-garde sound art put through a pop prism, and it’s all the more exciting as a result."[19] Heather Phares of AllMusic described the album as "nuanced in how it combines political, technological and structural and ideological concepts."[8] In naming Platform among 2015's best experimental albums, PopMatters wrote: "It’s fair to say if you're unfamiliar with [Herndon's] work, you've never heard anything like it: EDM-streaked sound collage, at once robotic and deeply personal."[20]

All songs written and produced by Holly Herndon; except where noted