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- Summary: The first new release in 32 years for the surviving members of the ensemble that began as the BBC's in-house musicians.
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- Record Label: Room 13
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Positive: 3 out of 7
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Mixed: 4 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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UncutJun 20, 2017This is nightmarish stuff--oscillating waves and synth drones hum menacingly,while snatches of piano appear, like daylight at the end of some ancient, subterranean tunnel. [Aug 2017, p.35]
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The WireAug 8, 2017There are some satisfying rushes of buzzing sawtooth waves, and luminous passages that hail back to the Workshop’s glory days. But the most successful tracks let their beautiful and odd electronic timbres breathe on their own, rather than adding them as a dressing or a side dish for the piano melodies, or other attempts at constructing a more conventional pop backbone. [Jun 2017, p.65]
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May 26, 2017While there is the odd lapse into grisly power-riffing, the overall mood is sedate if haunted. It has the same effect as dormant memories or lingering dreams, seemingly placid and harmless but then suddenly coiling itself around you.
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May 26, 2017Without anything to rein them in, these pieces have a tendency to drift, suggesting that a tighter remit, or more judicious editing, might have had more gravitational pull.
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May 26, 2017Sections within Things Buried In Water 1 and The Stranger’s House suggesting melody, the rest an offbeat, thrumming sound collage.
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MojoMay 26, 2017The results are appropriately cinematic and evocative. [Jul 2017, p.91]
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May 26, 2017As a musique concrète or experimental electronica album, Burials In Several Earths is an above average attempt that contains myriad intricacies and points of interest. As something to carry on a peerless lineage, however, it feels like an unnecessary move.