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- Summary: This is the second album of home-made recordings for multi-instrumentalist and former Fridge bassist Adem Ilhan.
- Record Label: Domino
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 20 out of 24
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Mixed: 3 out of 24
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Negative: 1 out of 24
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Entertainment WeeklyRhythmically tricky acoustic arrangements showcase his soaring, sensitive-bloke vocals. [29 Sep 2006, p.81]
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Although more full-blooded and more rhythmically experimental in places, '...Planets' isn't a giant stylistic leap from ''Homseongs', but then, why would you want it to be?
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Though the production value of Love and Other Planets intermittently occupies the same close corners that Homesongs did, Ilham's newer work presents a concept that is far too vast to for him to have covered on his rather intimately constructed solo debut.
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Comparing Homesongs to Love and Other Planets, as is sadly unavoidable with a debut and its follow up, reveals the former to be the more immediate, the more melodic and the more understandable. However, Love and Other Planets, despite a glossier overtone, is the detailed, developing record.
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SpinNever succumbing to mere cleverness, Adem achieves a singularly intimate expansiveness. [Nov 2006, p.96]
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Under The RadarAt his best, he Adem creates adventurously and almost unfathomably intricate sonic constructions... At his worst, he treads a little too close to the territory of every other somber, compositionally astute singer-/songwriter. [#14]
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Unfortunately, Adem’s efforts to take his music to new places result in the abandonment of much of what made Homesongs so appealing.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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toddwOct 16, 2006
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