Held - Holy Other
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  • Summary: This is the debut full-length release for the Manchester electronic producer.

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  1. Fact Magazine (UK)
    Aug 30, 2012
    90
    In both musical and studio accomplishment Holy Other has come into his own as strong, individual, musical voice; Held is a strong display of this and is going to make a lot of people very happy indeed.
  2. Pitchfork
    Oct 5, 2012
    80
    His music is of the wholly sensual, painfully physical kind, and with Held he triumphantly translates his bruised intimacy to full-length format without losing any of its skin-prickling power.
  3. The Wire
    Oct 5, 2012
    80
    It's like being in a church of flesh, a satin abattoir, an immersive video game of obsessive love--sickly, addictive, raw. [Aug 2012, p.46]
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  4. Q Magazine
    Aug 30, 2012
    60
    The producer's spectral strand of electro-noir is as seductive as it is unsettling on his debut album. [Sep 2012, p.102]
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