Golden Xplosion - Marius Neset
Metascore
92 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 4 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
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  1. The Guardian
    Jun 8, 2011
    100
    Marius Neset, the 25-year-old Norwegian saxophonist who surfaced in the UK last year with Django Bates (his teacher and mentor at Copenhagen's Rhythmic Music Conservatory), not only combines Brecker's power and Jan Garbarek's tonal delicacy, but has a vision that makes all 11 originals on this sensational album feel indispensable, and indispensably connected to each other.
  2. The Telegraph (UK)
    Jun 8, 2011
    100
    This isn't mere cleverness, it's instinctive musicality, buoyed up by three other fine players.
  3. musicOMH.com
    Jun 8, 2011
    80
    He has been launched into the UK jazz marketplace fully formed, capable of extraordinary flights of dexterity and rhythmic trickery, yet also with a strong sense of fundamental musical language and compositional flair.
  4. BBC Music
    Jun 8, 2011
    60
    There is plenty on Golden Xplosion to suggest that Neset is well-equipped to be massive in the future, provided he can build on the strengths of this album and avoid repeating its worst excesses.

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