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  1. hydrawithears
    Oct 3, 2011
    10
    Before the release of her beautiful and unearthly The Magic Place, Julianna Barwick amazed the world with her second EP titled Florine. It’s really hard to describe Julianna’s ambient music without using cheap metaphors but, hey, Florine transports you to another dimension composed almost only of the looped and processed voice of the ethereal singer. Cloudbank sounds like a New Age lament and is deeply melancholic. Choose, on the other hand, is joyful and invites to a journey into unknown. Anjos shows harmony between Julianna’s voice and the accompanying piano. Even though Florine is based on repetition, there is never a feeling of fatigue as the album bursts with brilliance.… Expand
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83 out of 100

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  1. cokemachineglow
    74
    It's music that, outside of a live setting where one has the benefit of watching her assemble her loops, calls for patience, and it's difficult to anticipate under what circumstances her techniques could lend themselves to something either more ambitious or longer in form or structure.
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  2. Dusted Magazine
    80
    Dizzying and beautiful at once, it is unlike anything else from 2009.
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  3. Pitchfork
    82
    Florine feels bracingly intimate and original, in its hieroglyphic way.
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