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Aug 26, 2014On Green Language, we witness risks. We listen anxiously as Rustie bets a Brinks truck on his emotional wherewithal, and that bet pays out exponentially.
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Q MagazineAug 29, 2014The vocalist work fine but instrumentals like Tempest and Velcro demonstrate that Rustie's personality is plenty big enough on its own. [Oct 2014, p.118]
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Aug 26, 2014Whyte has made an LP that rises and falls gracefully, proving that even his brand of everything-all-the-time dance music has room for nuance and subtlety.
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Aug 26, 2014Isolating his experimental tendencies to specific tracks leads to some uneven pacing on the album's second half. Otherwise, Green Language fully delivers, serving as a fascinating turn for an artist who earned his reputation by essentially bashing fans into submission with bass.
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Aug 25, 2014Rustie's hyper-enjoyable second album derives its title and some odd peacefulness from an unlikely source: birdsong, aka the green language, which was to medieval mystics the perfect mode of expression.
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Aug 25, 2014For his second album, also released on Warp, Rustie indeed slows it down a bit and peels away some layers, but he does so without making any concessions to politeness.
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Aug 22, 2014At a time when fellow Scots Hudson Mohawke, Calvin Harris and Jackmaster are making names for themselves across electronic music genres, Rustie's sitting in a space that's all his own.
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Sep 5, 2014Green Language feels like yet another standout release from the thinking man's Skillex. [Sep/Oct 2014, p.81]
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Aug 27, 2014The main issue with Green Language is that it feels scattered.
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Aug 26, 2014On one level, these tracks might be compared to ambient music in its non-teleological synthesized progressions that are more concerned with exploration than attainment. But there is still an astonishing feeling of fluid movement maintained throughout, thereby avoiding stagnancy.
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Aug 26, 2014Green Language is an adventurous, enthralling, emotional and frequently brilliant album, then. And yet, from an artist of such rare talent, it’s also a frustrating, slightly underwhelming one.
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Aug 25, 2014It doesn’t hit the heights of his debut nor is it quite so thrilling; however, it is certainly an impressive work nonetheless.
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Aug 22, 2014There are great tracks on Green Language, but a lack of consistency stops it from being a great album.
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Sep 9, 2014Unfortunately, Rustie’s seemingly inherent need to zig when expected to zag has resulted in an awkwardly stitched together ragdoll of otherwise intriguing and successful pieces.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 14
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Mixed: 4 out of 14
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Negative: 1 out of 14
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Oct 24, 2014
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Nov 1, 2014