Remains to be seen whether “kissing in hail” is still permissible…

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Will Adams: Over the years, Anders Trentemøller has drifted away from his tech-house roots and further into dreamy shoegaze, and I worry he may now be stuck. Lacking the snap and moodiness of recent singles like “River In Me” or “In the Garden”, “No More Kissing In the Rain” opts to shroud everything — from Lisbet Fritze’s already breathy vocal to the synth pads to the drums — in a thick, albeit very pretty, fog.
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Thomas Inskeep: The Dane has always been influenced by shoegaze, but leans back into the sound hard on “No More Kissing in the Rain.” Akin to Ulrich Schnauss’s work from the ’00s, this is has electronic textures but a wholly organic, ’90s feel. Vocalist Lisbet Fritze is perfectly icy and distanced (thanks in part to the way in which Trentmøller processes and produces her vocal, giving it Cocteaus sheen), matching both lyric and song.
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Nortey Dowuona: The fact that Lisbet Fritze is smushed against the glass of the the massive, swelling synths and lurking, loping bass and thumbed, nearly inaudible drums makes it feel like it’s about to overwhelm your brain and leak out onto your jacket, at least until it ends. But once you begin again, the synths begin curling above, the bass loping along, the drums holding the beautiful glass structure from below, trying not to drop it. What Lisbet is trying to say about kissing or not kissing in the rain is so thin, fluffy and undefined in the mix you strain to find what she is trying to say. And once you have, you realize why; “i think we need this last goodbye/you know i know were growing colder” is so vague and undefined it makes sense that Trentemøller would blow the synths out into cinema size to hide the thin and bland poetry stapled to the top.
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Claire Biddles: Like a musical reverse google image search, Trentemøller has constructed the exact song that one expects to hear with the title “No More Kissing in the Rain”. Drums like drizzle! Girly reverb vocals! Vaguely shoegaze-y vibes! Disintegration-lite wall of sound! More like a fence of sound? What I’m trying to say is it doesn’t quite hit the sides.
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Ian Mathers: I don’t know what I expect from Trentemøller at this point, but “somewhere between Mew and M83” is both not it and a perfectly pleasant surprise albeit I’d rather just go listen to Visuals again. A classic 6.5 but the vibe is good so why not bump it up.
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Wayne Weizhen Zhang: A recent article highlighted that in Chicago, only one of 42 days this month has been sunny. “No More Kissing in the Rain” is the type of song you’d want to listen to on one of those cloudy days, something to sink into and forget before you suddenly emerge on the other side. 
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