These are crisper, brighter, bolder songs, retaining Beach House's sense of elegant decay while sweeping up the debris.' Drowned in Sound said the album 'resonates with the same formless essence as its predecessor, but also far exceeds it in both composition and execution,' further stating that the band 'have created as profound an invocation of the sacred and the sentimental as you’re ever likely to hear.' Slant Magazine praised the album, saying 'it's possible to believe that if this band ever tires of killing with quietness and powerful beauty, they have it in them to dabble further in noise and space-rock. Brian Howe of Pitchfork said 'the duo's songwriting hasn't fundamentally changed on Devotion they've simply cleaned up their act. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 73, based on 29 reviews, indicating 'generally favorable reviews'. Devotion received mostly positive reviews from music critics.
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