[7] Like The Bones of What You Believe,[8] recording took place in Alucard Studios,[9] located in a basement flat owned by Cook,[10] refurbished with the advance for the new album.

[8] However, according to Iain Cook, the group had "kind of [...] took [Alucard] over" when recording of the first LP ended, despite the fact that they were still renting the place at the time, and decided to stay in the studio to produce Every Open Eye: "we wanted to go right back to where it all started.

There’s something in the room that we didn't want to lose, and we’d rather invest the money that we had available into upgrading the gear and patching it all in — just making it exactly the way we wanted it, rather than giving it to some other studio and another producer in LA or wherever.”[8] Doherty said that the low rent price of the place gave the members less worry about risking waste of production costs, therefore allowing more freedom for experimentation that he felt was needed in making electronic music.

Doherty said, "we don’t perfectly shape every single sound — snare drums cutting off in weird places, fills that have got deliberately cut-up samples.

[10] "Clearest Blue", the seventeenth track recorded for the album, "came to define how the rest sounds", according to Doherty: "big and happy and sad and a banger".

[13] On 15 July 2015 at Ottawa Bluesfest, the band debuted the songs "Clearest Blue", "Leave a Trace" and "Make Them Gold" before a live audience.

[22] Billboard's Carl Wilson's four out of five star review claims: "the sound is cleaner – there are fewer of the stop-start hitches and processed-vocal effects from Bones – the beats are more resounding, and the choruses often even more explosive.

"[25] Emily Mackay of NME praised the album, calling it "a record like a deep gulp of cold air on a clear, bright morning after.

"[27] Heather Phares of AllMusic rated the album four out of five stars, writing, "even if Every Open Eye is cheerier-sounding than The Bones of What You Believe, its emotions are just as complex.

"[23] NPR's Laura Snapes wrote that the album "fizzes with the jolting electricity that it takes to jump-start a lifeless situation, and wields more razzle-dazzle than Chvrches' debut dared to attempt."

The music itself was characterized as "delicious camp and Cyndi Lauper brass pops up alongside quieter moments that only make the stakes seem higher.