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  • Artist(s): Felix Kubin, Hubert Zemler
  • Summary: The debut full-length release for the collaboration between Hubert Zemler and Felix Kubin was mixed by Tobias Levin.
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  1. Dec 23, 2020
    80
    The duo end up complementing each other brilliantly, as their ideas flow spontaneously yet are executed with precision, resulting in a genuinely free-spirited, joyous work.
  2. Dec 23, 2020
    80
    Despite everything, CEL never feels sprawling. It’s not complete anarchy. The arrangements remain lean and starched, austere even, with clipped, unprocessed jazz drum breaks regimented underneath icy, hyperactive square wave arpeggios.
  3. Dec 23, 2020
    80
    With CEL, nothing is simply uniform, which makes for a compelling listen every time.
  4. The Wire
    Dec 23, 2020
    60
    There’s a silliness and lightness to CEL that is often charming, but can stray into tweeness, and its lack of a deeper pull doesn’t necessarily warrant repeat listens. An interesting conceptual exercise but unlike a lot of the krautrock it is reminiscent of, nothing to stir the heart or body. [May 2020, p.50]