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- Summary: The ninth full-length release for the Canadian artist who uses cassette players, reel-to-reel machines and synthesizers to create his sound was recorded in a variety of places in Vancouver.
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- Record Label: Fat Cat
- Genre(s): Electronic, Avant-Garde, Pop/Rock, Experimental Ambient, Experimental Electronic, Neo-Classical, Tape Music
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 12
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Mixed: 1 out of 12
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Negative: 0 out of 12
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MojoJul 6, 2016The result is fittingly breathtaking, a singer destroying his own work, yet creating something more elegiac and profound in the process. [Aug 2016, p.90]
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Jul 19, 2016Craig has become so good at his craft that one might be tempted to call Centres a magnum opus--it’s certainly grand enough.
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MagnetAug 9, 2016For all its listenability, Centres is still wildly inventive. [No. 133, p.55]
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UncutJul 6, 2016There's an addictive, hypnagogic quality to this ghostly combination of ambient noise, treated vocals and bursts if static. [Aug 2016, p.73]
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Jul 12, 2016He has vision and ambition beyond the scope of most of us and he is able to bring it to fruition. Long may he find new fans for his challenging but deeply satisfying work.
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Q MagazineJul 6, 2016A Circle Without Having To Curve is a billowing transmission from some gigantic sullen hulk. Elsewhere texture, hiss and layered voices head into abstraction, but if you think he's afraid of revealing himself, the voice and guitar reprise Contain (Cedar Version) ends the album with a sweet re-entry to the daylight. [Aug 2016, p.110]
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Jul 15, 2016In between more scattered wibblings, (sometimes overly) damaged yet lush textures abound on this long but often rather good and shoegazing-influenced record, the vocalist’s true worth finally being illustrated on the naked Purpose (Is No Country).
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Jul 13, 2016
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