 Bernadette McNulty from "The Daily Telegraph" praised the album as "pristine", noting the "front-and-center presence of Jackson's voice in the mix".Michael Cragg from "The Guardian" said "Xscape" feels "like an album created to showcase a handful of Jackson songs that on the whole deserve to be heard".Richard Suchet from "Sky News" thought the album "sound[ed] more like modern-day remixes".