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| 3.6 great | Erwann S. STAFF | April 27th 20 |
Cold ambient techno from tha Dutch dude. There are traces of dub techno too, and the additions of vocals adds to the glacial atmosphere. These voices never sing, they rather speak bits of conversations, which made me go straight to the Berghain (tbh i never went there). I didn't listen to the 2017 record but I was a tad afraid the formula he created in his EPs couldn't hold on a full-length LP. Turns out it did, yay. I still prefer this kind of minimal techno on short doses but eh i dont take pills so maybe that's why.
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| 3.5 great | Bedex | April 29th 20 |
Much better than his first LP imo. The tracks are more memorable, and the record has a cohesive atmosphere for the most part. He uses vocal samples as hooks here and there, and while he isn't quite a master at it, it certainly helps maintaining the listener's attention without making the mistake to clutter every track. 1 is good and similar to the prelude track on LP1, also introducing the vox samples as a surprise although I am not sure they particularly fit here. The tracks are still long and slow to settle, but they seem to have more variety to them. 2-4 are very strong and have a cold, hypnotic quality to them - 2 and 3 are jams. The middle of the album really dips in quality, 5 shattering the ambience with its quirky sounds and lighter beat, and 6 being nice with its vintage synth sounds but not mindblowing. 7 brings back the quality of the earlier and is nicely atmospheric, and 8 makes the vox sample work better because it is so lost and isolated in a wall of sound - wish it didn't repeat as much though. I really liked the textures on the album outro 9, and overall this is surprisingly solid. 3.65
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| 3.5 great | Gene Gol-Jonsson CONTRIBUTOR | December 9th 20 |
What often happens with minimalist music under pressures of maximalist runtimes is it exacerbates itself. Nthng's newest sometimes felt to me like were on the verge thereof. Admittedly, not all long-winded ideas pan out to quite the stellar effects, some out-of-place vocals samples spring to mind. But mostly the vast array of influences and stylistic inspirations came together nicely and were mixed beautifully under the blanket of dub-tinged smooth techno.
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| 4.0 excellent | Yotimi | December 17th 20 |
| 3.0 good | Wolfe | April 27th 20 |
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