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Jun 26, 2012Ask the Dust is one of the more interesting and compelling electro albums of 2012.
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Jun 20, 2012ess gritty, less grimy, and more digital in its overall sound but no less inventive than its predecessor, Lorn has thrown down another musical challenge that's well worth rising to.
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Jun 20, 2012Lorn builds winning improvements on an already victorious formula of boom-bap nightmares gone crypt walking.
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Jun 26, 2012The layers of rhythm, voice and electronics here possess the ability to tell stories, just like the novel after which they're named, and out of their conjurings emerge atmospheres and melodies that will remain in your head.
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Jun 27, 2012Think Burial operating on a slower, divergence-filled soundscape.
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Jun 20, 2012None of this could be called pushing boundaries, but each production is a striking piece of craftsmanship.
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Jun 20, 2012This is ambitious electronic music rewarding persistence.
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Jun 28, 2012[Ask The Dust is] an appropriate title for an album this haunting, this layered with wisps of shadowy movement caught out of the corner of one's eye, the last words of those who died alone attempting to connect with the right set of ears, anything that might understand. Indeed, this is a thing of frightening beauty.
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Q MagazineOct 12, 2012A strange, spooked and deeply involving record. [Jul 2012, p.105]
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Jun 25, 2012[The album's] obfuscating mires of navel-gazing perhaps precludes it from attaining Ninja Tune classic status, but those of a darker disposition will likely be of the opinion this challenging opus collates Ortega's strongest work to date.
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