philip sherburne of "pitchfork" contrasted "succour" with the band's previous album "quique", noting that while "quique" contained stylistic traits of shoegaze and ambient dub, "succour" appeared to be more influenced by the likes of aphex twin. sherburne cited the drum programming on "fracture" and "vex" as coming "straight out of [aphex twin's] playbook", while also comparing the beatless tracks "meol" and "utreat" to his 1994 album "selected ambient works volume ii".