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- Artist(s): Alessandro Cortini
- Summary: The debut full-length release for the collaboration between Daniel Avery and Alessandro Cortini was created over several years.
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- Record Label: Mute
- Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock, Experimental Ambient, Experimental Electronic
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Mar 26, 2020Where Avery was perhaps a little formulaic with his previous record, Song For Alpha, here he is inventive and reinvigorated, and Illusion Of Time stands out as an emotional and enjoyable, if bracing, release.
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Q MagazineMar 26, 2020This is lush music to get lost in. [May 2020, p. 100]
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Mar 27, 2020Illusion of Time is a confidently relaxed listen: Created in a pressure-free situation by two artists with no road map and nothing in particular to prove, it is expansive in scope, charmingly rough around the edges, and brimming with possibility.
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Mar 26, 2020Illusion of Time fittingly sounds rougher and more spontaneous than any of Avery's work or Cortini's preceding recordings, particularly his 2019 Mute release Volume Massimo, but its highlights seem to pull divine inspiration out of practically nothing.
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Mar 26, 2020Illusion of Time is at its best on the tracks whose titles imply clear pictures of light and dark. It feels less focused on the penultimate "Water," which is also the longest track at 8 minutes — a virtuosic experiment that regrettably dispels some of the dramatic oomph and coherence of the album as a whole.
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Mar 27, 2020Illusion of Time can sound more like a proof-of-concept piece than a fully-fledged album. However, if you can reconcile yourself to this fact, there’s some truly outstanding ambience to be experienced here.
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UncutMar 26, 2020It's aggressively zen numbers such as "Enter Exit" and "Water" that finally succeed in dragging you up to that higher plain. [May 2020, p.23]
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