Breakthrough
- The Gaslamp Killer
- Band Name: The Gaslamp Killer
- Record Label: Brainfeeder
- Release Date: Sep 18, 2012
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Oct 9, 201280In terms of its complexity and level of skill on display Breakthrough is a big step up for Bensussen.
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Oct 1, 201280For all its varied elements is all too clearly the expression of the demented but coherent vision of one man. You will find no better way to fry your mind this year.
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Sep 25, 201280Bensussen has delivered a varied, immersive set of highly memorable, enjoyable and danceable tracks that should push him further into the limelight where he has triumphantly proved he belongs.
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Sep 20, 201280[Breakthrough] is so much more than the hectic pastiches of exoticism that The Gaslamp Killer is famous for. Meticulous arrangements, pace, narrative and emotional authenticity are prioritized over an all-out assault of catatonia-inducing madness to convey its message.
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Sep 17, 201280Potent incantations such as Nissim and, particularly, the two tracks with Warp's sinister rapper Gonjasufi, prove this to be a wonderfully bananas breakthrough. [Oct 2012, p.100]
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Sep 19, 201277Breakthrough-- which it is and isn't-- feels like the kind of record his adventurous precedent has made into a familiar signature. It's the album that gets at his recent creative mode most definitively, the one people might figure he had in him rather than the one that changed anybody's minds about him.
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Dec 13, 201270It's about as weird and wonderful as you'd expect from a guy who looks like he's been living on a commune for the past ten years.
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Oct 12, 201270Breakthrough is an eclectic and challenging record that features more than a few sublime moments of heady bong-haze depth.
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Sep 26, 201270Breakthrough is a substantive piece of work, an album to be reckoned with by critics and fans alike; for it not only fulfills the promise of Mr. Killer's production work on A Sufi and a Killer, but also establishes an entirely new (and maybe impossibly high) set of expectations for a producer who appears possessed of genius.
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Sep 25, 201270The 47 minutes diced into 17 tracks that consitute Breakthrough demonstrate what Gaslamp Killer is capable of.
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Sep 17, 201270Breakthrough is a challenge for listeners, and the producers that make up the growing California beats scene.
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Sep 17, 201270Many of these tracks--indeed some of the most interesting--are more snippets than fully developed destinations. But there are real skills on display here.
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Sep 17, 201270This is music that you dive into wholeheartedly when there's time to examine its mutilated layers.
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Sep 19, 201260William Bensussen mashes up cavernous hip hop beats, 8-bit electronica, West Coast psych and glitch. [Oct 2012, p.95]
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Sep 17, 201260As a whole, Breakthrough can be powerful and hypnotic, but does feels a little familiar by now.
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Sep 17, 201260The resulting noodly beats might have pricked ears in 2007. But in 2012, with Flying Lotus set to redefine the LA scene with his keenly awaited fourth album 'Until The Quiet Comes', it's not quite enough.
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Sep 17, 201260Breakthrough splatters so many short ideas across its 47 minutes that a front-to-back listen is wearying, like hearing a dozen erratic interludes mixed in with a handful of lengthier sketches that are no more settled.
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Sep 28, 201230Where Flying Lotus scatterbrain brings emotive grooves out of madness, GLK can only manage ugly, mostly boring sketches. [Nov 2012, p.75]
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