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- Summary: The New York industrial electronic duo of Aaron David Ross and Matthew Arkel releases their debut full-length on the Hippos In Tanks label.
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- Record Label: Hippos in Tanks
- Genre(s): Electronic, Electro-Industrial
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Aug 7, 2012[A] thrilling and possibly definitive album, it's impenetrable, multifaceted, and irrepressibly imaginative.
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Aug 21, 2012Swallow this album whole, letting the peaks and valleys of its cinematic reach melt into one another as it moves forward toward its soft sprung conclusion.
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Aug 7, 2012Gatekeeper's Aaron David Ross and Matthew Arkel crunch elements of '80s post-industrial dance, horror/sci-fi soundtracks and computer game music into an enjoyably garish whole.
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The WireAug 23, 2012Exo alternately provokes astonishment at its kitschiness and the sensual thrill of its dazzling inhumanism, but that's probably the whole point. [Aug 2012, p.58]
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Aug 7, 2012The fundamental Gatekeeper template has been stretched and tweaked, putting one tentative foot forward into the future while the other remains firmly rooted in the past.
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Aug 27, 2012The digital readymades provoke an interesting set of concepts and questions, which is good, but results in an album in which a majority of the heavy lifting is performed by the extra-textual aspects of the project, providing undeserved depth to a series of obsessive repetitions of the banal.
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Aug 27, 2012An album in which a majority of the heavy lifting is performed by the extra-textual aspects of the project, providing undeserved depth to a series of obsessive repetitions of the banal.
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