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- Summary: This is the debut full-length release for the Gary, Indiana electronic producer.
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- Record Label: Planet Mu
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Apr 16, 2015In its breadth of ambition and stunningly realised sounds, Dark Energy delivers more than just a new twist on an established style. Remaining tightly linked to the music of Jlin's forebears and contemporaries, it nonetheless maps out an inspiring and tantalising glimpse of electronic music's future.
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Apr 22, 2015Jlin has provided us with evidence of veins untapped, an obscure map of zones still to be colonized in the name of the dance. If you care about footwork at all, you need to hear this album.
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Apr 16, 2015Dark Energy has all the hallmarks of footwork--its frenzied pacing, arrhythmic kick drums, a graphic command of blank space--executed with clear-eyed self-determination. This gives the album an opaque, thoughtful quality.
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Apr 16, 2015As Burial is to dubstep, Jlin is an artist who belongs to her genre, but has an eye on where it could go next.
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Apr 16, 2015It’s a fascinating, detailed and absorbing album, and one of the best electronic/dance albums I’ve heard in many months.
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Dec 22, 2015Tense, thrilling, and a bit frightening, Dark Energy is simply one of the most compelling debut albums of 2015.
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The WireMay 15, 2015Complex puzzles for nimble feet to crack, custom-built for dancing. [Apr 2015, p.52]
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