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  • Summary: This is the fifth full-length release for the British electronic producer.
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  • Record Label: Cambria Instruments
  • Genre(s): Electronic, Techno, Club/Dance, Indie Electronic, Experimental Techno, IDM
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  1. May 5, 2020
    90
    Fake's music has always been highly inventive and emotion-rich, but this is the most urgent and vital it's ever felt.
  2. May 5, 2020
    80
    Blizzards is a beautiful and fun and affecting record that never fully succumbs to the easy allure of nostalgia over its expansive sixty-four minute runtime.
  3. May 5, 2020
    80
    Blizzards highlights everything Fake is good at: the way his drums tend to dance in between established genres, melodies that sound like a warped Boards Of Canada record, the constant push-and-pull of dark and light. It's more of a reset than a reinvention, a return to the earnest simplicity that made him a wunderkind all those years ago.
  4. Q Magazine
    May 5, 2020
    60
    Fake is rearranging his sound rather than reinventing it. [Jul 2020, p.109]
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  1. Jun 30, 2020
    9
    ____11 tracks, like 11 rivers, which have a different character and emotional color. One catches you with its turbulent current, the other____11 tracks, like 11 rivers, which have a different character and emotional color. One catches you with its turbulent current, the other calms you with an even run of water. Sounds flow through you and draw associative rows of pictures in your head.
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    Yes, the electronic world of music is like this: it turns musicians into artists.
    _____ It turned out a good portion of sound ambient, which absorbed understandable dance rhythms and non-trivial new sound solutions. And Bizzards reminded me of the early Boards of Canada albums.
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