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77

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7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 15 Ratings

  • Summary: This is the second solo release for Fuck Buttons' Benjamin John Power.
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  1. Positive: 16 out of 19
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  1. May 21, 2015
    90
    Dumb Flesh on the other hand feels like a direct continuation of the last superb Fuck Buttons album, Slow Focus, albeit a good deal warmer than its overpowering austere chilliness.
  2. Q Magazine
    May 8, 2015
    80
    Dumb Flesh strikes a fabulously oxymoronic tone: euphoric dread. [Jun 2015, p.100]
  3. May 12, 2015
    80
    He’s giving you something you might find familiar or even commercial by its basic outlines. But he’s still got ways to make it uncanny: close, loud and abrupt.
  4. May 8, 2015
    75
    The album is vivid between shadows, pulsing with the diseased blood of a body slowly losing its motivation to carry on. Had Power pushed himself to soundtrack this deconstruction through the minimalist nature of his quiet work, though, Dumb Flesh could have been fully realized.
  5. Jul 8, 2015
    70
    Maybe not what they originally had in mind when they used to call it “Electronic body music,” but a stunning reinterpretation nonetheless.
  6. A standalone success that also whets the appetite for Fuck Buttons’ return.
  7. May 11, 2015
    40
    The totalitarian self-regard of these bombastic modular synth symphonies owes more to Queen’s One Vision than it does to Kraftwerk’s Man Machine.

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