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Mar 26, 2015Scuba's music has always sounded wonderful--warm, rich, enveloping, ultra-vivid--but Claustrophobia feels like a major step up; the sonics are simply dazzling.
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Mar 26, 2015Claustrophobia feels richer and more worthy of exploring than the likes of ‘Hardbody’ or his Phenix releases.
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Mar 26, 2015On Claustrophobia, Scuba has created an engrossing long-player that's surprisingly more mode-y than moody.
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Apr 9, 2015It's almost a back to basics approach.
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Apr 1, 2015Instead of trying something new, he focuses on what he's good at, which makes Claustrophobia a lateral move rather than a step forward. It seems Rose is trying to recapture the brilliance of his peak-period work. In Claustrophobia's best moments, he does.
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Mar 26, 2015It's not the spartan techno of the early SCB records by any means, but the never-quite-convincing progressive window dressing has mostly been thankfully thrown out said window in favour of an approach that maintains big room impact without pandering to its more simplistic tropes.
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