• Record Label: Software
  • Release Date: Feb 11, 2014
Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 9
  2. Negative: 0 out of 9
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  1. Apr 1, 2014
    80
    While 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.
  2. Feb 10, 2014
    80
    It ensnares the listening consciousness, simultaneously revealing the trap and pacifying the listener.
  3. Feb 10, 2014
    80
    Working 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.
  4. Feb 10, 2014
    80
    The eight-part suite greatly expands on Thug Entrancer's previous efforts, yet still finds the producer relying solely on analog synthesizers and drum machines
  5. Mar 4, 2014
    76
    Death 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.
  6. Feb 11, 2014
    75
    Ultimately, only time will tell, but as things stand now, his Death After Life LP is unquestionably a strong and inventive first full-length.
  7. 75
    It’s music that shakes you to your core, and even if you’re left frosty-hearted afterwards, you’ll be under the spell.
  8. Feb 25, 2014
    70
    Death After Life is so seamless and consistent that it might grow tedious for less patient listeners.
  9. Feb 20, 2014
    60
    Taken 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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