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Oct 20, 2011This is a record designed to be listened to in isolation, preferably through a massive pair of high-quality headphones rather than in the mass communal surroundings of a club.
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Dec 8, 2011This is the product of a dynamic and assured vision, one that retains an alluring sense of mystery.
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UncutNov 11, 2011Ice cool and white hot by turns, Emika is a singular and significant new voice at the interface between pop and dubstep. [Nov 2011, p.83]
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MojoDec 22, 201112 fascinating electro-symphoic constructions informed by dubstep and Delia Darbyshire's BBC Radiophonic Workshop experiments. [Nov 2011, p.103]
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Q MagazineDec 8, 2011Techno meets dubstep in this dark twist on electronica. [Dec. 2011, p. 126]
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Oct 20, 2011With Emika, then, the hiding is over, her close-up appearing clearly on the cover of this varied and impressive 12 song record.
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Oct 24, 2011Emika's made a very personal album here that succeeds by its own exacting standards.
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Oct 20, 2011[The album] is an intriguing work: dark, seductive and as hard to pin down as its creator.
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Dec 8, 2011Be it the furious pounding bass of the dubstep angle she toys with, or the amorphous dark ambient she seems to wallow in, whatever led you to Emika's debut LP will also leave you breathless.
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Oct 20, 2011It's the sheer intensity of the whole package that seduces.
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Dec 7, 2011It's reassuring and delightful to have a debut this excellent to cement her place.
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Oct 20, 2011Listen on a good system and you'll be entrapped and immersed.