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- Artist(s): Miles Whittaker, Sean Canty
- Summary: The album collects the four-part vinyl EPs released last year into one set.
- Record Label: Modern Love
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Positive: 6 out of 6
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Mixed: 0 out of 6
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Mar 7, 2012On Elemental, Demdike Stare give us glimmers of melody - looped chimes or listless piano figures - shivering out from the cloud of reverb, but for the most part what we get are dub shadows of songs, low on contrast and grainy with dust particles, uncanny echoes and malevolent drones.
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Mar 7, 2012While Demdike fans will have heard a lot of this stuff by now, Sean Canty and Miles Whittaker are still better than just about anybody else in the way that they thread found sound, field recordings, library music and generated sounds and beats... one hell of a package.
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Mar 7, 2012While Elemental isn't quite on par with their earlier material (more than a few tracks here are simply nothing more than feedback loops, as if the group were deliberately trying to sound scary instead of just simply being scary), as a whole package it's still a genuinely disturbing yet fascinating experience from two men truly caught up in a dialogue that only they seem to be able to hear.
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Mar 22, 2012They're in an increasingly crowded field but hover well above all of their contemporaries.
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MojoApr 25, 2012Heavyweight and sodden like the starry mills of Satan. [May 2012, p. 103]
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Mar 7, 2012There really is very little out there like this, and Demdike is a very acquired taste. If you've got the stomach for it then Elemental is their banquet - 18 nightmares you'll want to revisit.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Apr 3, 2012
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