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- Summary: This is the second full-length release for the Houston-based electronic producer Eric Burton.
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- Record Label: Halcyon Veil
- Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock
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The WireDec 19, 2017The record inevitably calls to mind such seminal sci-fi soundtracks as The Terminator and Blade Runner. ...The album is nonetheless imbued with an intrinsic purposiveness which emphatically renders its sounds meaningful in excess or independent of conceptual determination. [Dec 2017, p.49]
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Dec 19, 2017As ambient music, radio play, fetid sustenance for misanthropic shut-ins--it is a singular piece of work, and a bold step forward for Rabit’s inky aesthetic.
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Dec 19, 2017while it's not perfect, Les Fleurs Du Mal is a brave leap into the dark, a place so suffocating, black and unknown that it bears revisiting just to see what you might encounter on your next descent.
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Jan 24, 2018Folks hoping for a repeat of Rabit's 2015 pseudo-grime offering Communion will certainly be disappointed here; open-minded listeners with a penchant for the darker side of experimental dance music will find their thirst for evil slaked.
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Dec 19, 2017Les Fleurs Du Mal is more sound design than music, and while second-to-second it is impressively three-dimensional, its sheer abstraction means that genuine terror, sorrow or poignancy never build up.