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  • Summary: The Scottish electronic artist releases his debut full-length album.

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  1. Q Magazine
    80
    His debut album is a brilliantly inventive collision of '80s golden-era hip-hop, Aphex Twin-style beats and pop melodies that wouldn't be out of place on an OutKast record. [Nov 2009, p.107]
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  2. AllMusic
    80
    Sometimes needlessly complex and, at its worst, goofy for the sake of being goofy--proper boots-in-a-dryer bizniz with shrill flotsam swirling about--these tracks can be as off-putting as they are exhilarating.
  3. Observer Music Monthly
    80
    Hudson Mohawke, whose debut album contrives to be both idiosyncratic and soulful. The spirits of OutKast and Prince loom large, and, along with most of the albums here, it crackles with imagination.
  4. PopMatters
    80
    More than his emerging pop craft, what Birchard infuses his debut album with is a sense of fun and excitement.
  5. Drowned In Sound
    80
    There’s a lot more going on besides, maybe a touchstone too much at times, but you’d have to have either incredibly specific or incredibly boring taste to not find some gold herein.
  6. musicOMH.com
    70
    If you're in the wrong mood it can be a touch wearing by the end, but more often than not this is 21st century funk gone right.
  7. Pitchfork
    67
    Hudson can definitely do tweaked, but he has work to do before being transcendent.

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  1. clem666
    Jun 3, 2022
    8
    First album effort from Hudson Mohawke. Just wow. As amazing as surprising. This album just made so many people doubt about Hudson's sanity.First album effort from Hudson Mohawke. Just wow. As amazing as surprising. This album just made so many people doubt about Hudson's sanity.
    I couldn't even think about something more varied and eclectic than what Hudson managed to craft in 'Butter'. It benefits from both deep tenderness and roughness. To me 'Butter' specifically succeeds in its first leg. 'Acoustic Lady' gives me goosebumps. But after 'Rising 5' the quality starts to decrease and I felt the project becoming less attractive, less nuanced and less focused, with the major exceptions being 'No One Could Ever' and obviously the gigantic 'FUSE'. I could also underline the very end with the beat switch on 'Black n Red' which I found to be terrific. The second leg sees more chanting verses and some tracks going nearer and nearer to annoying. But to me it simply can't erase the grandiosity of what Hudson intalled from the beginning.
    I already have listened to some of Hudson Mohawke's pieces of work but I still have to admit that 'Butter' is considered to be near the top.    … Expand

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#94 Best Album of 2009