Writing for The Line of Best Fit, Wepea Buntugu praised the album's "large, swelling beats and instrumentation" and "strong, rousing choruses.

"[14] Pitchfork's Eric Torres described the album as "full of keening synths, electric guitars, and heavy drum beats.

The Observer's Ammar Kalia criticized the album as having "too many moments where Balbuena adopts a middling mumble, stumbling over her melodies.

"[2] The Line of Best Fit's Buntugu described Shake's lyricism as "fascinating", writing: "she condenses the main messages of each song into a few words, and the whole punch of a track may take up just about a verse or even less.

"[2] Writing for The Music, Cyclone Wehner concludes writing, "You Can't Kill Me thematises transience and the cosmic vagaries of consciousness, volition and inevitability in the digital age, but it really is destined to be a sleeper classic.