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Universal acclaim- based on 33 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 31 out of 33
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Mixed: 2 out of 33
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Negative: 0 out of 33
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Aug 18, 2013This is amazing. So many musical ideas flowing throughout the songs all coming together beautifully. This a real artistic achievement, just brilliant. If this doesn't deserve a perfect score then i don't know what does.
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Oct 20, 2012
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Mar 31, 2012Julia Holter's "Ekstasis" album is definitely invading the waters of pop music with more power than its predecessor "Tragedy". And it's certainly better. Tracks have something that makes you forget yourself thanks to them. Compositions are kind of seemingly quiet indie folk songs combined with elements of electronics or synthesizers, but overall you listen to album with pleasure.
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Jul 12, 2012
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Feb 5, 2014
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Apr 12, 2013Not good as 'Tragedy', which is one of the best albums of the decade, but more commercial and accessible. 'Marienbad' is one of the best pop songs of the year.
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Aug 25, 2022Quietly intimate avant-garde chamber pop folk thatvfeels like if Joanne Newsome had to whisper
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Dec 3, 2012More immediate songs such as In the Same Room are ineffably breezy, while other tracks illustrate her handle on ancient Greece (This is Ekstasis) and the uncommon control she has over textures and motifs, atmospheres and vocoders.
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Nov 29, 2012The more time you spend with it, the more its structures make sense, the more the melodies begin to sparkle, the more the sense of some unsought truth fighting its way out becomes apparent.
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Apr 5, 2012Ekstasis is brimming with them though [moments that are avant-gard yet instantly accessible] -an album so coherently constructed that it's perhaps more notable for its instants, its moments and sequences, than its full tracks.