Rest in Bass received critical acclaim, with praise for high-energy production, fuzzy sound, and innovative use of mixtape structure. Critics praised the album for its dedication to the lo-fi, rage-fueled sound and criticized its lack of emotional depth.
Pitchfork compared the album to
Playboi Carti's 2020 album
Whole Lotta Red. The Needle Drop's
Anthony Fantano awarded the album a light 7, saying it was "one of the most fully realized rage projects in recent memory." He referenced the frantic energy and blown-out sound design of the album as he praised
Xaviersobased and Chuckyy's features for introducing contrast and energy. Fantano criticized the album for repetition in texture and disjointed sequencing, but also praised Che for possessing "rockstar-level energy" and experimenting within a very oversaturated subgenre of trap music. Bryson Paul of
HotNewHipHop described the album as "Che's most audacious work yet." Elaina Bernstein of
Hypebeast called the album the "epitome of
rage-rap in the post-
SoundCloud era."
The Faders Vivian Medithi described
Rest in Bass as an album which pulls influence from "rainbow-y
EDM and nightcore
vocaloid". He also described the album as a darker and sharper departure from Che's previous works, noting "sawtooth synths grating against open hi-hats and hollowed-out 808s, degraded samples mired beneath sludgy basslines and plodding drums." Medithi also noted how Che often raps about death in his music, but
RIB sees him go "full
kamikaze". During
The Faders weekly music roundup,
Rest in Bass was a described as a standout album, and was listed as one of the top five new albums that music listeners need to listen to. Eden Tizard of
The Quietus wrote how
Rest in Bass "is a dizzying rush of overstimulated beats and frazzled synths". He also wrote how the young rapper follows in the footsteps of "ATLien
Playboi Carti in a chase for ever-escalating levels of extremity. He's a self professed rockstar, and a live wire hedonist." Additionally, for the music of the month, Tizard has
Rest in Bass as one of the albums of July. Additionally,
Pitchfork ranked "Rest In Bass" at number 39 on their Top 50 Best Albums of 2025.
Complex ranked the album at number 29 on its equivalent list.
Song reception According to Olivier Lafontant of
Pitchfork, he claims that "Hellraiser" is a freakishly bubbly song, featuring staticky deliriums, scratchy chirrups, and elastic synths from CXO. Lafontant also claims how the song sees the duo "test their breaking points as if to see whose
Auto-Tune plugins would crash first". Lafontant also humorously wrote how "Hellraiser" is "what happens when you give
molly and
FL to some kids raised on
WLR leaks and
Cartoon Network". Due to the track's individual success, it was nominated as one of the best new
rap tracks by
Pitchfork. ''
The Quietus'
finest, Eden Tizard wrote how "Slam Punk" sees Che give an appropriate shoutout to rapper and pioneer, Lil B, as well as Future, who is "the Atlanta elder statesman of psychedelic autotune", according to Tizard, lines from the track such as "I just fucked this bitch in some Gucci flip flops," is a "claim hard to take at face value when uttered from what appears to be the zig-zagging electric gremlin from Gremlins 2: A New Batch"''. Tizard also wrote how the track is filled with impish compulsion, and heavy-hitting
ad-libs, which Tizard compared to as a game of
ping-pong. Lastly, Tizard wrote how the line is a "far cry from Future's lean hiccup come synthetic sob – in that context the Gucci line sounded less like a brag and more like a brief moment of intoxicated clarity, perhaps a heart on sleeve confession."
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