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  • Summary: The second full-length release for the British electronic producer was inspired in part by Carlo Scarpa's architectural designs, late night drives and weather patterns.
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  1. Aug 28, 2018
    74
    Darby has always had a good grasp on what makes this music so addictive. EPHEM:ERA just looks at it from a different perspective, highlighting the curvatures of grime's fundamentals.
  2. Aug 28, 2018
    70
    EPHEM:ERA cheats our trained cognition and creates a space for itself, playing with our restless thirst for difference, working itself into the gaps in our memory.
  3. The Wire
    Aug 28, 2018
    70
    For much of the record he has opted for the middle ground of an unchallenging electronic music LP in the twinkly and tasteful tradition of Four Tet and Border Community, as ready for coffee table listening as a full AV show at London’s Barbican centre. ... At its most restrained Ephem:Era advances the sound of Signals in exciting directions. [Aug 2018, p.63]
  4. Q Magazine
    Aug 28, 2018
    60
    The tracks are all short, sketching atmospheric outlines before vanishing. [Aug 2018, p.116]