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| 2.7 average | Erwann S. STAFF | March 9th 21 |
Aquatic techno that takes its time to fully expose its rhythms. Indeed, the dude should have renamed this one It Never Starts. Of course it does at some point, but the record struggles with pacing and length - almost all tracks would have benefited from a reduced length. Overall this is not very memorable, neither as enthralling as his EP, nor as focused as Hypnotherapy would be in 2020.
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| 3.0 good | Bedex | April 27th 20 |
Re-jamming this in preparation for the new LP but it was just as I remembered: really not all that marking. The prelude is quite cool and slowly builds a wall of synths, nicely stating that this will be an album that takes its time - at 70 minutes, that's quite accurate. The problem is that, until the closing trilogy which I find better crafted than the rest, and with the exception of 4 which was a standout single on the EP but here feels like it blurs itself into a sea of bore, this album never truly grabs me and feels like it has a lot of incongruous elements. The songs are too long and there isn't much for the mind to be hooked to. The simplistic beat on 2 for instance completely breaks the atmosphere 1 took so long to build, and I just don't get that. The bassline is nice, and some sections are cool, but the track overall fails to ever convince me. Same goes for 5. 3 has a way darker beat which is more cohesive with 1 and nicer, but is still meh. Then on its latter third-ish, the record improves. 6 is a snthy interlude akin to 1, 7 is alright generic nthng material, 8 shows a cool blend of Shed and nthng but should have been 6 minutes shorter, and finally 9 is what I had been waiting for all along on this album with the only true standout track alongside 4, with a nice, dark, cold, broody, foggy atmosphere to it. Bumps this a point or two to a 3.05
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| 2.5 average | Wolfe | November 13th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | etK | March 1st 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tom R. CONTRIBUTOR | February 28th 17 |
| 2.5 average | p4p | February 25th 17 |
| 2.0 poor | Jots EMERITUS | February 16th 17 |
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