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Sep 7, 2011For longtime fans, Celestial Electric is about as good as one could have hoped for the coming together of two like-minded musicians.
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Q MagazineFeb 16, 2012Heavenly. [Mar 2012, p.97]
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Mar 6, 2012This is music at something like its most natural, made by a collaboration who might not even have met but who have struck up a clear understanding despite the distance between them. More, please.
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Sep 12, 2011Celestial Electric is overwhelmingly a summer record-but one you can pull out on the coldest of winter nights and be instantly transported to warmer climes with its tropicalia-tinged melodies.
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Sep 7, 2011Ultimately, Celestial Electric could only have been made now, and it stands on its own merits. As the future sons and daughters of generations come to pass, the genius of Shawn Lee will be widely recognized. With AM up front, Lee is like The Funk Brothers of Motown.
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MagnetNov 11, 2011Lush and smooth, funky and ethereal, Celestial Electric is a sublimely down-tempo album filled with beautiful vocals and gorgeous orchestration. [#81, p. 52]
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Sep 7, 2011Celestial Electric can feel a little freewheeling and exploratory at times, but it also hints at great potential in future collaborations.
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Sep 7, 2011This type of zip-filed nostalgia is not particularly rare or new, but what makes this meeting of the minds work better than other collaborative vanity projects is the way these two artists' sensibilities flow seamlessly into one another, erasing any sense of the cut-and-pasting that brought the album to life.