reach the top 10 in the chart, and his highest peaking album in the UK to date; Selected Ambient Works Volume II had previously peaked at number 11 in March 1994. Syro also appeared on four other British charts; it placed at number 2 on the Independent Albums Chart and number 7 on the Scottish Albums Chart, as well as reaching number 1 on both the Dance Albums and Official Record Store Albums charts.Syro entered the top 10 in several international charts, including the Irish Albums Chart, the Irish Independent Albums Chart and the Russian Albums Chart, where it debuted at number 10 with first week sales of 10,029. The album entered the weekly Japanese Albums Chart at number 8 and sold 10,553 physical copies in its first week of release. Syro debuted at number 35 on the Belgian Albums Chart in Flanders and subsequently entered the top 10, rising to number 7 in its second week. On the United States' Billboard charts, Syro placed in the top 10 in several charts, having sold 23,000 first-week copies—22 percent of which were LP copies and responsible for "the largest sales week in 2014 for a dance/electronic album on vinyl", according to Nielsen SoundScan. Syro topped the Vinyl Albums, Dance/Electronic Albums and Tastemaker Albums charts, and entered the Digital Albums chart at number 8 and the Independent Albums chart at number 2. As of February 2015, Syro had sold 54,000 copies in the US. On 5 March 2015, it was announced that Syro's Japanese bonus track "MARCHROMT30A edit 2b 96" would be released as a 12-inch single on 6 April 2015, backed with alternative versions of the title track and Syro's "XMAS_EVET10 [120] (thanaton3 mix)". Critical reception Critical reviews At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Syro received an average score of 86, based on 36 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".Clash editor Mike Diver referred to the album as "an effortless comeback" and described it as "a more immediately engaging collection" than Drukqs (2001) and "an album that plays almost exclusively to its maker's long-established strengths". Writing for The Guardian, Tim Jonze said that "[Syro] doesn't do what some fans will have been hoping, in that it does not completely reshape the sonic landscape in the way Richard D James repeatedly did through the [19]90s ... and yet by sounding simply like a series of