Looping State of Mind
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Oct 25, 201191The Field knows how to tease until it's practically torturous, while somehow never qualifying for off-putting tags like "difficult" or "experimental."
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Dec 5, 201190As alluring and dreamlike as anything from Willner's first two full-lengths.
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Oct 28, 201190It's the album that vaults him from burgeoning, brilliant protégé to titan in one fell swoop, and it hints at even greater things to come as he continues down the path of total artistic realization.
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Oct 7, 201190This is Willner's finest record yet, a composition of effortlessly gorgeous, technically fantastic, genuinely awe-inspiring music.
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Oct 5, 201190Looping State of Mind might just be the finest document of his craft yet.
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Oct 6, 201185Here he has never sounded more confident and purposeful, building layered and incredibly rich compositions out of his blissful loops that more than justify the length they inhabit.
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Oct 5, 201185He's brought all his skill to bear on Looping, as composer and arranger and texturologist, in order to build something this simultaneously sweeping and subtle, deep and immediate.
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Oct 5, 201184Looping State of Mind both conquers and surpasses the only-so-many-pieces-in-the-box standards of most traditional dance forms by appeasing those crescendo/break/denouement expectations in name only.
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Dec 15, 201180Boundless and ecstatic, this is house music at its very best. [Dec. 2001 p. 126]
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Nov 11, 201180Given the complex menagerie of moods and movements interpolated amongst the din of this septet of songs, it seems like the man has indeed accomplished his mission.
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Oct 24, 201180It's expansively, ecstatically excellent for many of the same reasons as The Field's previous two: blissful, loop-based hymns at the intersection between shoegazing, trance and minimal techno.
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Oct 18, 201180Magnificent. [Nov 2011, p.84]
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Oct 13, 201180Looping State of Mind is a bold attempt at fusing The Field's emotive tendencies with something more aggressive, and for the most part, Willner strikes the perfect balance.
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Oct 5, 201180The results are even more immersive than the stuttering microhouse rhythms on which he built his reputation originally.
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Oct 5, 201180There's nothing here with quite the same catchiness that The Field somehow achieved on the head-nodders A Paw In My Face or The More That I Do, but each track is a fascinating experiment in sound, and this is perhaps his strongest record yet.
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Oct 5, 201180Fast forward to 2011, and third album Looping State Of Mind is a markedly more complex development of his sound.
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Oct 5, 201180Not only is Looping State of Mind Willner's most diverse and satisfying statement to date, it's an album that establishes him as one of electronic music's more subtly lateral thinkers.
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Oct 20, 201178What will catch one's attention are the patterns Axel Willner creates within each song that push the record forward.
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Nov 15, 201170The inanely literalistic Looping State of Mind magnifies that trend [toward expansionism], offering seven mutations of his trademark sound, in a newly expansive array of tempos. [#82, p. 55]
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Oct 24, 201170Willner may not have been able to affect us as deeply and profoundly as he does on Looping State of Mind, showing us not only that he has successfully moved past the confines of his early work, but also that he's presently at the top of his game.
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Oct 6, 201170Looping State of Mind barely outstays its welcome, and its beatific state of mind may prove to be a welcome refuge for many more than for the musical vanguard, like Seefeel, that inspired it.
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Oct 5, 201170On the whole, Looping State of Mind is carefully thought out, beautiful in its lofty ambitions, and a refreshing return without any unnecessary sheen and gloss--minimalism that moves.
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Jun 28, 201260The warm glow that they engender is palpable, but you do wonder what may happen if The Field broke free from the constraints of the loop. [Jan 2012, p.99]
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Oct 27, 201160If you can't tell by the horribly obvious title, Looping State of Mind is designed as a return to The Field's roots--and in many ways, that shift is enough to make it a step up from Willner's last effort.