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They've honed their craft to incorporate increased nuance alongside blunted force. [#153, p.83]
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80Rich in imagery and suggestive of enviroment -- arctic, urban and mental -- Pan Sonic chisels a sound contradictory in its makeup, utterly synthetic and metallic yet somehow deeply organic. [#82, p.144]
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80Despite the obviously electronic origins of most of the sounds, there are clearly thinking, imagining humans behind the scenes; this is about as un-clinical as electronic music gets.
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74Aaltopiiri feels much more like a soundtrack, with creeping drones sliding in and out of the mix, and more subtlety overall.
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The sort of disc that inevitably prompts skeptics to ask, "You call that music?"
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Here is another dry collection of sullen machine drones and subtle tonal manipulation; signals to the outside world explaining that all is well in Pan Sonic's overpoweringly masculine universe.
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70Another stripped-down epic that is likely to be equally treated with acclaim and disdain. [Apr 2001, p.107]
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The disc resonates as much as a relaxant as it does as an agitator, and pleasant subliminal melodies and patterns eventually emerge from the static, skips, and not-so-random noise.
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60Spending much of its time suspended in hollowed-out tones smudged only by desolate beats, Aaltopiiri is probably Pan sonic's most intense listening experience.
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Returning to the green fields of pure sound study they'd appeared to desert during the late '90s, Pan sonic forged a series of intriguing sketches devoted to the polar wastes inside their computers and sequencers.
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40Sadly, their steadfast refusal to engage the emotions is irritating and alienating. [Feb 2001, p.95]
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FredL9nearly as good as the panasonic's