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Aug 4, 2016It all speaks of erudition, repetition used and abused in a dizzy concatenation. 25 25 is music as heartbeat (and screw the arrhythmia). Essential.
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Aug 17, 2016While occasionally you miss the humanising influence of an analogue drum, or Void’s bowed guitar or even a voice which sounds more flesh and blood than silicon, the sheer force of will that drives 25 25 batters you into submission.
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Aug 18, 2016Dirty, hedonistic, and majestic, 25 25 is the sound of dance music at its most astonishing.
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Aug 4, 201625 25 slithers through the auditory canal, hypnotising and beguiling the listener, before finally ensnaring those who choose to listen.
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Sep 6, 2016In its own claustrophobic, expansive, debauched, and sardonic way, 25 25 proves that less truly is more for Factory Floor.
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Aug 24, 2016They’ve managed to wrap the menacing and the rewarding up in an air-conditioned pleasure circuit, beyond transgression and provocation
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Aug 22, 2016The whole thing makes you want to punch the air--or maybe even strip off.
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Aug 19, 2016Whether due to Gurnsey and Void’s developing rapport, or the honing of their collective sound, 25 25 packs the immense sort of punch that descriptions of their live shows recount.
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Aug 19, 201625 25 sounds as great in a bedroom as it would do in any sweaty nightclub, and for that reason, it’s a triumph.
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Aug 18, 2016Part of the original sell was that the percussion was live, or at least analogue; on 25 25, it’s largely programmed. While this removes some of the group’s distinctiveness, it also allows them to explore a less abrasive version of their style without losing any intensity.
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Aug 18, 2016It’s Factory Floor’s second album and it’s their best.
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UncutAug 5, 2016These crafted tracks are built for dancefloor delirium, yet darkness and unsettlement abound, awkward elegance and cool beauty twinned with repetitious abandonment. [Sep 2016, p.74]
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Q MagazineAug 4, 2016If many tracks sound like the back-half of an extended mix, the effect is never short of mesmerising. [Sep 2016, p.106]
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Aug 22, 2016It’s less of a seismic shift from their debut, and more of a progressive tweak towards something much bigger.
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Aug 15, 2016While 25 25 is an uneasy listen at first, it's worth the perseverance even when giving up seems like the only plausible option.
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MagnetAug 11, 2016If Factory Floor emobodied a dynamic tension between paralysis and movement, claustrophobia and cathartic release, this outing functions similarly but tips the scales slightly toward the former categories. [No. 134, p.57]
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Sep 13, 2016Their sound is now more stark and metronomic than ever before.
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Aug 26, 2016Factory Floor's aesthetic is rarely comforting, and yet their new music settles into itself as it revisits old habits.
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Aug 12, 2016Revisit older Factory Floor tracks like “A Wooden Box” or “(R E A L L O V E)” and there remains something tantalizing there--the way they morph back and forth between live band and broiling techno, a trompe l’oeil for the ear. On 25 25, they’ve shed this dimension, and the results can feel depthless and a little flat.
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MojoAug 4, 201625 25's monomaniacal quest for the ultimate groove occasionally leaves the listener behind. [Sep 2016, p.96]
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Aug 15, 2016What 25 25 is missing are those necessary bits of relief that were worked into their previous album.
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Aug 16, 201625 25 is too dated and monotonous in its aesthetic to captivate those on contemporary dancefloors or mainstage festival grounds—where today’s EDM thrives most profoundly—and its lack of modernity and failure to iterate on dormant genre conventions will leave the cutting-edge electro-savvy intelligentsia shrugging their shoulders.
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Sep 13, 2016Continually tedious and far too long for its own good, 25 25 is a almost hour-long endurance test that refuses to let itself out of the duo’s own heads.