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Q MagazineDec 11, 2012With no track under six minutes in length, some editing wouldn't have gone amiss. [Jan 2013, p.107]
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Dec 17, 2012Player Piano was received coolly for its lack of ambition and it's depressing to hear a follow-up that stubbornly refuses to learn from Memory Tapes' mistakes.
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Dec 4, 2012Grace/Confusion could have been a great 20-minute EP. Instead, it's a listless 40 minutes that works best as background music.
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Dec 7, 2012[Davye Hawk] likened this album's conception to "a maze to get lost in," which is the exact way listeners should approach his latest creation, for all of its sprawling incertitude.
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Dec 3, 2012It's simply warmed-over easy listening as rendered by a lo-fi producer who, ironically enough, seems outdated and outmatched in a genre known for being both retro-obsessed and DIY.
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Dec 13, 2012You don't always know what cosmic tunnel Memory Tapes will drag you through, but you can always expect a metamorphosis.
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Dec 10, 2012A strangely arid collection of tracks that register not so much as songs, but as experiments following arbitrary, sometimes aimless, courses.
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Jan 9, 2013So safely, solidly familiar is Hawk's third album that it's enough to make you nostalgic for the sound as it splutters on its deathbed.