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Disappeared
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 11 critic reviews
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Album Info
Label: Thirsty Ear
Release Date: 22 August 2000
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): dance, electronic
Summary
What The Critics Said
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Magnet
Their most sustained work... It's sometimes ethereal, sometimes sedate, sometimes dissonant--but it's always artufl, quoting tiny fragments of Steve Reich, Brian Eno, and Miles Davis to steer the music toward a smart new seriousness. [#47, p.122]
Alternative Press
While it doesn't flow with the breathless ingenuity of their earlier albums, it's still a cut above 90 percent of today's electronica. [#147, p.109]
Sonicnet
Incorporating free-jazz squonk into sultry bossa nova with tempo-defying breaks and ethereal atmospherics is no easy feat, but somehow, the London duo pull it off.
Read Full Review >Armchair DJ
This sort of thing may be n steps removed from the dancefloor, but it's also thrillingly physical, even while it tantalizes the mind.
Read Full Review >Pitchfork
If anything, Disappeared reestablishes Spring Heel Jack as drum-n-bass experts, gifted at layered percussion, and erudite at unsettling listeners with an uneasy ambience.
Read Full Review >New Musical Express
What 'Disappeared', in all its stealthy innovation and breathless compendium of sounds, amounts to, is a kind of avant-garde musique concrète - difficult noises shrouded in a cloak of accessibility.
Read Full Review >Q Magazine
Spring Heel Jack exist in that increasingly exciting no-man's land where clubland and modern jazz call a truce and have a kickabout.
Read Full Review >CDNow
The album as a whole leans a little too far toward dissonance and gratuitous noisemaking.
Read Full Review >Launch.com
Disappeared hints at the cathartic spillage of drum 'n' bass, while also dropping beats from Motown, rock, and beyond. But unfortunately the melodies that were once so incisive and pliant soon grow monotonous and alien.
Read Full Review >Wall of Sound
Spring Heel Jack's latest seems so willfully irritating, careening from one idea to the next, with little regard for such pop conventions as melody, rhythm, or harmony, that one can't help but wonder -- albeit fleetingly -- if it just might point toward a whole new style of music.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes
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