Glass Swords - Rustie
  • Band Name: Rustie
  • Record Label: Warp
  • Release Date: Oct 10, 2011
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82 out of 100

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8.7 out of 10

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  • Summary: This is the debut full-length album for the Scottish producer Russell Whyte.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. NOW Magazine
    Nov 11, 2011
    100
    It all makes Glass Swords a vivid, liberating experience (and, as a by-product, makes the canned wobble of dubstep seem oppressive).
  2. The Wire
    Dec 6, 2011
    80
    Th art here is ensuring that too much is in fact just enough, and Rustie is a master of it. [Oct 2011, p.51]
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  3. Mojo
    Dec 22, 2011
    80
    An exhilarating brand of digital soul. [Nov 2001, p.103]
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  4. Uncut
    Nov 11, 2011
    60
    Glass Swords places him squarely out there on his own, programming the kind of computer-game fluoro-rave crunk that's easy to admire but hard to love. [Nov 2011, p.97]
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  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. Improvised
    10
    Glass Swords is like a 12 puppies wrapped up in a cybernetic ball of cookie dough. It's the epitome of fresh. Horrible review, I know, but it needed to be said.… Expand
  2. chente
    10
    There is nothing out there that comes even close to this. I mean where else can you get Hip Hop, The Legend of Zelda, Prog-rock and Daft Punk all in the same place?… Collapse

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