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- Summary: The husband-and-wife duo of Colin Newman and Malka Spiegel return under the Immersion name for this release that includes five songs songs from their EP released in Feb 2016.
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- Record Label: Swim
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Dec 2, 2016Despite that introductory flash, Newman and Spigel are equal partners in Immersion, and there's no way of telling where one's contributions begin and the other's end. The instruments themselves are also equal collaborators.
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Dec 2, 2016The resultant album is one with emotional peaks and valleys but no dip in quality or momentum.
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UncutDec 2, 2016At times, mellifluous minimalism shades into mundane monotony, but these electro-mechanical reveries mostly achieve a kind of hypnotic power through accretion and repetition. [Jan 2017, p.24]
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The WireDec 21, 2016The whole album has a distinct and mothball-smelling late 90s vibe, the parts gelling with a certain clunkiness that characterised their last album Low Impact, as if the two were taking a vacation in their own pasts. Like other people’s holidays, it isn’t always as fun for the onlookers as it may have been for them. Nevertheless, Analogue Creatures features some genuinely lovely work. [Dec 2016, p.60]
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Dec 2, 2016As with Newman and Spigel’s previous output, most of it is far too restless to be dismissed as merely “ambient.”
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MojoDec 20, 2016As with previous Immersion material, analogue synthesizers provide the musical focus here, sporadically infused with electric guitars, often played in the oblique, angular style that Wire Fans will instantly cleave to. [Feb 2017, p.98]