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- Summary: The latest full-length release for the Glasgow-based techno producer Alex Menzies features his own vocals.
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- Record Label: R&S
- Genre(s): Electronic, Techno, Experimental Techno
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Jan 22, 2016There are echoes of recognisable genres here, but the overwhelming sense is of a burned-out mind, muttering freaky things to itself, as sounds fizzle and char around it. Yet somehow, as the rhythms chatter, vocoders sing hymns to deviant gods and the synths melt, it sounds like something you want to get involved with.
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Jan 22, 2016As fans of the Glaswegian producer will know only too well, the solemnity of Menzies’ work as Alex Smoke has always proved itself to be multi-faceted; transcending the sphere of electronic music to incorporate the multi-instrumentalist’s penchant for classical instruments. Fast forward to 2016 and this truth remains intact.
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UncutJan 22, 2016Menzies fuses his recent interest in classical work with glitchy dystopian techno, painting a nine-more-black picture that lurches between bruised James Blake and after-hours heroin party with no little elegance before ultimately losing its way in all the fog. [Feb 2016, p.80]
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Jan 22, 2016Love Over Will offers a techno release beyond the noise, one that wrestles with vocal placement and layers chaos into algorithms and filtered metrics strung out in evolving time.
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Jan 27, 2016The result is an attention-grabbing album that reaches inward and artfully delivers vulnerable thoughts through sharply honed production skills.
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Feb 12, 2016It’s not necessarily perfect, with a number of its brief 13 tracks sounding like unfinished sketches, but somehow the sum total adds up to an engaging, if unsettling, minor masterpiece.
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Feb 5, 2016Overall, Smoke still gets over on his ability to craft rich, moody soundscapes, although almost all the tracks on the album would have worked better as standalone instrumentals.