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Dec 3, 2012While a good background album it may be, it's not exactly gripping. The songs are too multifaceted to feel cohesive, yet they never seem strikingly experimental.
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Jan 9, 2013Ultimately, Grace/Confusion is a production best staged in the theatre of your mind.
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Dec 6, 2012Grace/Confusion goes above and beyond the call of pop, and signals grander adventures to come.
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Dec 5, 2012Grace/Confusion sees Hawk get back on track, by remembering what worked in the first place.
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Dec 4, 2012The album, titled Grace/Confusion, offers the chillwave sound that Hawk is known for but with a fuller, crisper and more melodic take.
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Dec 3, 2012sity. Dayve Hawke has created a record that's as graceful (sorry) as it is mighty.
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Dec 17, 2012An experiment in style that is perhaps a little confusing at first; but more than makes up for it in its grace.
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MojoJan 18, 2013Atmospheric, reverbed beats that suggest indie boys who dance. [Feb 2013, p.98]
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Dec 3, 2012Grace/Confusion is an aptly confounding record, its six tracks very much dissimilar to each other yet held together with a sense of grand gesturing and tireless virtuosity.
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Dec 6, 2012While Grace/Confusion may lean too heavily on Hawk's production, it's a hair better than Player Piano. But it's hard to call it an "improvement" or "progression" considering it's hardly outside the scope of what Memory Tapes has done so far.
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Dec 4, 2012They take the things about Italo disco and synth pop that I love and imbibe them with genuine humanity and masterful songwriting.
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Dec 6, 2012The reinvigorated results feel warm-blooded, definite, vulnerable, exposed.
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Dec 4, 2012By throwing out the genre rulebook, Hawk is pushing electronic music into weirder, more exciting territory, chillwave purists be damned.
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Dec 4, 2012The disc's six tracks clock in at less than 40 minutes, so there isn't really time to screw things up on a royal scale, making Grace/Confusion a fine listen.
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Dec 10, 2012The album clocks in under 40 minutes, and its experimental touches are modest.
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UncutDec 11, 2012Mostly, he comes across as a one-man Arcade Fire. [Jan 2013, p.79]