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May 21, 2015Dumb 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.
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May 12, 2015In a U-turn from the cerebral escape of Blanck Mass, Dumb Flesh stretches tautly over gnarled techno bones.
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May 12, 2015He’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.
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May 11, 2015A danceable memento mori, Dumb Flesh is mischievous, poignant, and quite likely Sacred Bones' most accessible release of 2015.
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Q MagazineMay 8, 2015Dumb Flesh strikes a fabulously oxymoronic tone: euphoric dread. [Jun 2015, p.100]
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UncutMay 8, 2015Generally, Dumb Flesh is more gleaming and monolithic than ever. [Jun 2015, p.71]
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May 8, 2015Dumb Flesh is a vast leap forward for Power's solo career, which peels back flesh from bone to reveal a throbbing, palpitating polyrhythmic masterpiece. [Apr-May 2015, p.89
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May 8, 2015Power manages to keep Dumb Flesh sounding uniform and digestible, a great feat for an artist hell-bent on dissecting his craft.
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May 13, 2015Like Power's best work, Dumb Flesh moves you when it literally moves you.
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May 8, 2015The 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.
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May 21, 2015It's slightly ludicrous, highly theatrical and great fun.
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Jul 8, 2015Maybe not what they originally had in mind when they used to call it “Electronic body music,” but a stunning reinterpretation nonetheless.
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May 11, 2015There are some fine moments here, but all too often Dumb Flesh seems like a diluted version of Fuck Buttons.
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May 8, 2015A standalone success that also whets the appetite for Fuck Buttons’ return.
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May 8, 2015This is beautiful, disgusting, danceable, and nightmarish music. It allures and repels in equal measure, bursting with thoughtful concepts and successful experiments in sculpting electronic noises into something danceable, melodic and meaningful.
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May 8, 2015It would be wrong to say that this is an enjoyable album, but it is rewarding in its own way.
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MojoJun 10, 2015You can't accuse Powers of resting on his laurels--although it's at the expense of some of that first record's unique character. [Jul 2015, p.91]
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May 28, 2015It’s as if the music has already presented itself. But it hasn’t. Titles can’t describe timbres or structures: they can only point to them.
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May 11, 2015The totalitarian self-regard of these bombastic modular synth symphonies owes more to Queen’s One Vision than it does to Kraftwerk’s Man Machine.