 We 're New Here received widespread acclaim from critics . At Metacritic , which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications , the album received an average score of 83 , based on 28 reviews . AllMusic 's Thom Jurek called it " a mercurial collaboration ... full of nods to other club styles and eras " , and praised Jamie xx for " successfully ( re ) presenting Scott @-@ Heron 's music — integrity intact — in the present tense to a fickle yet discerning groove @-@ centric culture without kitsch or excess " . Chris Martins from The A.V. Club praised " the everlasting gravity of [ Scott @-@ Heron ] ’ s words and wisdom " , writing that " his pained , bluesy musings are as universally human as they are perennially pertinent ... Scott @-@ Heron talks , sings , hums , and pontificates , sometimes over the beat and sometimes from deep within the snowdrift " . Pitchfork Media critic Sean Fennessey commended Jamie xx for being bold rather than respectful of Scott @-@ Heron 's material with a " finicky , hard @-@ charging production [ that ] trumps Scott @-@ Heron 's voice , overpowering it with ideas , if not focus " . Ben Ratliff of The New York Times said that the album is an improvement over " the bummed @-@ out original " with " patience and breadth and almost zero pretension " . Max Feldman from PopMatters commented that " Ultimately , We ’ re New Here succeeds because it manages to seamlessly reconcile the different traditions from which it draws — not just Gil Scott Heron ’ s uttering utterances , but UK Garage , the fibrous gloss of Seventeen Seconds @-@ era The Cure , and R & B futurism " . 
