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  • Summary: This is the second studio album for the trio that includes Moritz Von Oswald, Max Loderbauer, and Sasu Ripatti.

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  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
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  1. All Music Guide
    Apr 4, 2011
    80
    It's all quietly dazzling, a sinuous fusion of jazz, dub, and techno that pulls from German, African, Jamaican, and Latin forms without the slightest hint of stuffiness.
  2. Dusted Magazine
    Apr 4, 2011
    80
    Horizontal Structures proves that this music has legs. You don't really need to know who is in this band, or what else they've done, to appreciate what they do. You just have to like your hefty sounds to come wrapped in plush space.
  3. The Wire
    Jun 13, 2011
    80
    With the addition of these elegant bent strings, it is as though perfumed air has been allowed to seep into what was formerly a hermetically sealed canister. This (now non-) trio's music is that much better for the enhancement. [May 2011, p.58]
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  1. MorriBey
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    Perfect album to fall asleep to but it is not , by any degree, a work of art to encourage your friends to listen to. It meanders too much without any depth beneath it.… Expand
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