[1] As a result of the incident, Prudhomme was forced to drop out of his school and live only with couches and minimum wage from working at Little Caesars.

[1] However, he also had hope that his life would get back together and that he could learn how to improve the music he was producing, a calm feeling that was also a heavy contributor to the album's sound.

[1] Loud and Quiet described Remembrance's overall instrumentation as consisting of "shimmering synth-pad soundscapes, soaring arpeggios and razor sharp, syncopated hip-hop beats".

"[4][5] Pitchfork also compared the melodic structure of the tracks to that of intelligent dance music released in the late 1990s, and noted the record to have the "slow-burn anxiety" of the works of producer and DJ Zaytoven.

"[13] AllMusic's Paul Simpson was another critic that called Remembrance better than Japan, noting its more "complex" arrangement and introduction of new sounds to Suicideyear's style.