- Critic score
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Feb 21, 2012As messy and thoughtful a take on house as we're likely to hear this year.
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UncutFeb 10, 2012While house purists might find it juvenile, and there are some aimless passages, the lo-fi production is beautiful. [Mar 2012, p.87]
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Q MagazineFeb 22, 2012Hive Mind sounds at once strange and familiar. [Mar 2012, p.100]
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Feb 10, 2012It's a creative, intelligent and serious work that also has moments of considerable fun.
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Mar 20, 2012On Hive Mind, Ital delivers a refreshing approach to instrumental electronics, with equal disinterest for both the club and headphone scenes, pissing off Internet purists in the process.
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Feb 27, 2012After multiple listens, the desire to rip apart Martin-McCormick's stitched together freak is assuaged by a desire to submit to it and play it on repeat, to revel in its drive, energy and emotion.
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Feb 10, 2012Take it as deep dance for when there aren't enough hours in the day.
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Feb 21, 2012Everything on this oddball album demands your attention, often in unexpected ways.
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Feb 13, 2012The album pursues a house sound consistent with 2011's Ital's Theme.
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The WireFeb 17, 2012The tracks are subject to strategies of sampling, distortion, cut-up and back masking, to a troubling point of excess, impurity, queasiness, and corrosion, unheard of in earlier releases. [Feb 2012, p.60]
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Mar 6, 2012It ultimately lacks cohesiveness and direction to evolve into something truly outstanding, but still remains intriguing enough to possibly earn points with the more adventurous listeners.
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Feb 15, 2012These are long form constructions, masterfully wrought from the simplest of sonic elements--basically just synths, the odd sample and plenty of percussion--and festooned with idiosyncratic detail.
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Feb 24, 2012Hive Mind is confident in finding a throughway and becomes as much a joy to listen to for its toy-box experimentation as it is for its head-nodding immediacy.
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Mar 21, 2012Focusing on the music and what's happening within and around it – enables Hive Mind to deliver a truly excellent aural experience.
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Mar 9, 2012Hive Mind, follows in the vein of "Ital's Theme" by focusing on warm, softly throbbing textural slides over insistent 4/4 rhythms to forge a kind of day-drifted vagabond music akin to the work of acts like Blondes or The Miracles Club.
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Feb 10, 2012It'll inevitably be pigeonholed as post-house or something equally asinine, but for now, it exists without definition, and for that we can be grateful.
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Feb 10, 2012A welcome 40-minute excursion indeed.
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Feb 15, 2012Hive Mind doesn't quite possess the same strength as what has preceded it.
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Feb 28, 2012Had he trimmed the fat a touch and maybe tacked on an extra track or two in its place, Ital's LP might have been something closer to remarkable.