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Q MagazineOct 12, 2012This follow-up boasts a more cohesive sound but without sacrificing the duo's Eastern-influenced allure. [Jul 2012, p.108]
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MagnetJul 23, 2012Elements of krautrock and psychedelia add color, buoyancy and narrative detail to the rippling dub-pop streams Dunis' disembodied voice drifts over like smoke. [No.89, p.58]
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Jun 27, 2012Lucifer demonstrates Peaking Lights' maturation in more ways than one, and the album is a welcomed contribution to the lo-fi genre they know and love.
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MojoJun 26, 2012Before comedown-closer Morning Star comes the high point of a very high album: Dream Beat, woozy and sexy, with a bassline you could ride on right through the summer. [Jul 2012, p.94]
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Jun 19, 2012The result is the best album Peaking Lights have yet recorded.
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Jun 19, 2012Lucifer, their third and most in-focus full-length yet.
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Jun 18, 2012Lucifer - Latin for "morning light" or "light-bearer" - is an unabashedly blissed-out affair, composed of expansive dub grooves and enough good vibes to fill an entire summer.
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Jun 18, 2012They're not breaking significant new ground here, but neither are they standing still.
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Jun 18, 2012Peaking Lights make music that turns limited means and an artsy angle into something profoundly universal.
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Jun 18, 2012Lucifer transforms the mundane into the magnificent, slowly but surely edging out all other summer listening options.
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Jun 18, 2012The perfect soundtrack to the festival season and those long days when you sit in the shade with a cool drink.
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Jun 19, 2012Lucifer is just their third album, and yet it's unmistakably drenched in their specific brand of patience and calm.
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Jul 12, 2012While Peaking Lights came into this album lurking largely in the hazy fringes of the consciousness of music fans, with Lucifer they've made an album that more clearly demands the active attention of those who might happen upon it.
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Jun 29, 2012With six-minute songs in which to stretch out, they continue to weave surprising musical strands into an agreeably amorphous whole.
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Jun 19, 2012Whereas 936 introduced us to a wonderland of dub-infused psychedelia, Lucifer features a much wider scope from the duo.
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Jun 19, 2012Lucifer is definitely not for everyone, but for some it will be their album of the year.
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Jun 18, 2012Although it doesn't stray hugely from the meandering blueprint of last year's '936', 'Lucifer' throbs with warmth, occupying a dreamy hinterland beyond Big Youth and Beach House.
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Jun 18, 2012Peaking Lights' music is slow to reveal itself and unfolds gracefully, at its own pace.
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Jun 18, 2012It's more chillout room than chillwave, all dub and little step, and the better for all of that.