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- Summary: This is the debut full-length techno release for Chicago-based producer Ryan McRyhew.
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- Record Label: Software
- Genre(s): Electronic, House, Techno, Club/Dance, Experimental Techno, Tech-House, Microhouse
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Feb 10, 2014Working in long phases of slow development, Death After Life manages to pull energy from the darker corners of several splintered fields of techno to craft a strange and menacing hybrid that reaches dizzying places of both ugliness and resolution on almost every track.
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Feb 10, 2014It ensnares the listening consciousness, simultaneously revealing the trap and pacifying the listener.
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Apr 1, 2014While the record as a whole rewards revisit, the excitement concerning its many idiosyncrasies inevitably levels off. And yet, that initial pang of shock never fully subsides.
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Mar 4, 2014Death After Life gets a little cute here and there (cf. the extended roboseizure freakout outro to "III"), and it starts to lose a little steam near the end, when the downtempo digression of "VI" and the hopped-up yet unsurprising "VII" roll towards the official conclusion.
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Feb 11, 2014Ultimately, only time will tell, but as things stand now, his Death After Life LP is unquestionably a strong and inventive first full-length.
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Feb 10, 2014It’s music that shakes you to your core, and even if you’re left frosty-hearted afterwards, you’ll be under the spell.
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Feb 20, 2014Taken individually, the album is full of moments of tiny decadence, and though it never really coheres as a whole, there’s a sense of being taken aback by this album.
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