Album Rating: 4.5

Neon Pattern Drum makes me grin like an idiot, it's so good



Singularity is already looking like a 4.5 for sure

Album Rating: 4.0

wow that guardian review lmao i'm not even head over heels about the new album but what a smug lil bitchtit that bloke is

Album Rating: 4.5

The Guardian review is right in one aspect: the first half of the album is way stronger than the first, at least on first listen. I can see COSM and Luminous Beings growing on me with more listens, but the first half is just so immediate

I like this more but Singularity is still damn good

Album Rating: 4.5

Everything Connected reminds me a lot of Open Eye Signal, in the best way possible.

Album Rating: 4.5

I mean it’s gotta be by design that the back half slows into ambient atmospheric tracks, the first tracks are made all the more immediate by contrast

Album Rating: 4.5

some would call that bad pacing



but I need to listen to this more before I land on a rating. it's definitely at least a 4, maybe a 4.5 if the back half connects with me.

Album Rating: 4.5

my first listen through i was hoping for some more bangers in the back half, but subsequent listens and i'm not even thinking about it. i think it works really well

now this is how you do a track by track review: https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2018/05/04/607825272/jon-hopkins-enters-the-singularity-track-by-track

Album Rating: 5.0

Singularity would virtually be on par with this if not for the excessive minimalist piano

Driven sections imo. They’re nice enough but they don’t really define Jon as an artist , and at the least they should’ve incorporated more ambience and nuance as abandon window did.

Album Rating: 4.5

that self track by track provides a lot of perspective, good writer and all

Album Rating: 5.0

One thing I noticed is that singularity is a lot more cohesive and masterfully arranged than perhaps it seems on first listen. Still noticing recurring motifs - im

Probably just a slow leaner but I somehow just resized the piano melody in echo dissolve Is the same as the intro of emerald rush

Album Rating: 4.5

"I somehow just resized the piano melody in echo dissolve Is the same as the intro of emerald rush "



Yeah there's a lot of it on the album, really well wrote and composed. My only complaint is I wish Everything Connected came later in the tracklisting. Singularity is more cohesive overall and flows amazingly well from front to back. Dare I say I may prefer Feel First Life to Abandon Window.

Yeah Everything Connected would work well as the penultimate track for me, a summary of the entire album (the title being very apt). I know exactly what you mean about Feel First Life, it's absolutely gorgeous and has more happening than Abandon Window, as beautiful as that song is. I think Singularity works better for me as the theme resonates more than the story of the highs and lows of a 'night out' as this album tells.

Wouldn't work there at all. The album has the arc of a psychedelic experience, how can you have the most immense/propulsive track before the "Recovery"? The sequencing is perfect.

In any album where there are contrasting louder and quieter 'ambient' songs, whatever genre it may be, I'd always say it's better certainly for the pacing of the album to have the ambient tracks interspersed throughout the upbeat ones instead of each type stacked at two different ends of an album. The penultimate or third last track is usually a good place for the climax of the album which Everything Connected works well as before fading out into ambience at its end, segueing well into Recovery. I don't see how that doesn't work, but if the album has to strictly follow a psychedelic experience I can't really comment as I have no idea what that feels like. I just feel like it would be slightly better as an album if it didn't. I love the album as it is though don't get me wrong, this is just nitpicking.

Album Rating: 5.0

I think this album captures the same intimacy and ethereality as experienced during an MDMA high, but as for Singularity capturing a hallucinogen high, I feel it's too cinematic and restrained, and not hypnotic enough as say Gas - Pop. Also the album has too many moments of respite and reflection (e.g. Feel first life ) interspersed throughout it, which aren't really reflective of a hallucinogen trip imo.



Basically echo dissolve should've progressed into a more maximal track with a beat and ambience etc, and then Recovery could serve as the only entirely piano piece, which would also make it more effective. Great album as it is though.

Album Rating: 4.5

"The sequencing is perfect."



I'd put Everything Connected just before Echo Dissolve, there's just a tad too much spaciness in the 2nd half.

no way imo. the album shouldn’t have weighted sonic balance in that way. second half needs more spaciness in order to work.

Album Rating: 4.5

Also C O S M is being slept on hard, it's working it's way up to being my fave.If I had a ranking atm it'd probs go;

1. Feel First Life

2. Luminous Beings

3. C O S M

4. Everything Connected

5. Neon Pattern Drum

6. Recovery

7. Singularity

8. Emerald Rush

9. Echo Dissolve.