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Apr 8, 2014At just 40 minutes in length it's concise to say the least, but the result is a hearty meal that will subtly introduce you to a new flavour every time you return.
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Apr 29, 2014His newfound control on Estara makes the flowing sounds and uplifting moods that distinguish him within the beat music scene all the more expressive.
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Apr 8, 2014E s t a r a is a step above genre-bending; this is genre-carving.
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Jun 3, 2014E S T A R A is not as strong an album as Ardour, not as surprising because it couldn’t possibly be. But in its own, attenuated, scattered-birds way, this album is everything we could have hoped for.
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May 5, 2014Overall, like the California sunshine, it's an irrefutable tonic.
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May 5, 2014Mandowa has carefully crafted the album so that each song appears smooth and calming while retaining an adventurous edge.
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Apr 18, 2014Estara is not as musically challenging, hooky or advanced as some albums by similar artists.
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Apr 8, 2014This album was crafted amid relative calm, and this peacefulness is present in every track.
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Apr 8, 2014E S T A R A is almost hypnotic in its tendency to make each individual track blur itself into an indistinct piece of a loosely memorable whole, one with little impression actually retained even if it jumps from mood to mood.
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Apr 17, 2014It might have fewer surprises and off-kilter oddities than we’d hoped for, but it definitely won’t kill your buzz.
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Apr 8, 2014Many of the other songs on this album feel rather static and enclosed.
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Apr 17, 2014Like a Japanese cherry blossom, however, the impact of E S T A R A is instantaneous and powerful, yet ultimately fleeting.
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May 29, 2014The album requires the exact right mood and setting and even then it fails to become much more than pleasant background music.
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Q MagazineMay 20, 2014For all its surface activity, this twitching, fidgety aesthetic is still all icing and no cake. [Jun 2014, p.121]