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Feb 21, 2013Despite its velocity, the album is ambient in the sense that it sounds best when heard with the same indirect, free-associative attention that’s behind it.
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Feb 21, 2013Even when the pulse ends up becoming more of a question mark than an assertive statement, the music still speaks as directly to the body as to the mind
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Feb 21, 2013While a demonstrable knack for narrative composition gives the album much of its immersive power, Kuopio isnʼt a huge departure from the blueprint.
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Feb 21, 2013It’s perfectly good--there isn’t actually anything particularly bad or boring about it--it’s just fractured without being bloody-mindedly avant-garde and it’s bleak without being exciting about it. It’s just headphone candy for nerds.
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Feb 21, 2013Filching from the foundations of dub music to create a stridulous yet wholesome panache is something Vladislav Delay has been doing for many years, and despite purveying a rather ambivalent shrug with regards to its inception, he has fashioned on Kuopio an album that stands equally as tall as its predecessors.