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Jun 21, 2012Polysick displays a nerdish devotion to subtleties, like creating rhythms without beats and overlaying field recordings under a mix.
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Jun 21, 2012At its most cleverly executed, Polysick's sound world is easy on the ears but never quite easy listening – entrancingly, exotically beautiful, but with a barb in its tail.
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Jun 21, 2012Digital Native is an album that is fragile and elusive. Its main weakness is that are too few moments to really catch onto amid fleeting moments of beauty and invention.
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Jun 21, 2012Not a bad choice for zoned-out afterhours sessions or long lost summer afternoons, but it's just too indifferent to recommend with any real conviction.
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Jun 21, 2012Digital Native is harmless analog tapestry, but it wilts under too much attention, unable to conjure the vivid scenes to which it was undoubtedly conceived.
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Oct 23, 2012This is techno at its most individuated, the drama of small, melodic transitions between layers of simple, emotive phrases sought in weirdsigged box jams.
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Jun 25, 2012Digital Native is missing a large amount of the substance and general cohesiveness that any artist's "first proper album" should rightly offer.