Released in Japan in December 2017 by Commmons and in February 2018 in other countries by Milan Records, Async – Remodels garnered generally positive critical reviews and peaked at number 15 on the Billboard American Top Classical Albums chart.

[19] As AllMusic journalist Paul Simpson summarized Async – Remodels, "the collection ultimately ends up feeling like a tribute as well as a remix album, serving to highlight Sakamoto's considerable influence on generations of forward-thinking electronic musicians.

"[22] Beta, also praising the album as ambitious and "tak[ing] the biggest risks," honored the remodels as "natural extensions" of async, reasoning that they "all reveal the sizable debt and sonic paternity of Sakamoto on their own music.

"[16] Sputnikmusic claimed, "Remodels at worst does indeed bastardize Sakamoto's intentions, [...] but the willingness to deviate from the original composition – and adding lush vocalizations and beats in their place – is a prime component of what makes [it] more than a simple throwaway remix album.

Across these mixes there's a surprising uniformity of tone and timbre, a kind of austere grandeur with lots of high end reverb trails, big percussion hits, and a sense of frozen futurism.

[25] Daniel Bromfield wrote the album uses the "postmodern hellscape aesthetic" of avant-garde producers on its source material, which "sacrifices a lot of what makes async special, like its innocence and its bittersweet awareness of the transience of life.