• Record Label: Swim
  • Release Date: Nov 25, 2016
Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 6
  2. Negative: 0 out of 6
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  1. Dec 2, 2016
    80
    Despite 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.
  2. The Wire
    Dec 21, 2016
    70
    The 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]
  3. Uncut
    Dec 2, 2016
    70
    At 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]
  4. Dec 2, 2016
    70
    The resultant album is one with emotional peaks and valleys but no dip in quality or momentum.
  5. Mojo
    Dec 20, 2016
    60
    As 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]
  6. Dec 2, 2016
    60
    As with Newman and Spigel’s previous output, most of it is far too restless to be dismissed as merely “ambient.”

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