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May 31, 2018An ambient, compelling and unique look into whether contemporary life really has to be so empty.
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Jun 1, 2018All that surrealist pop plays out over 30 minutes of interlocking songs, enough to keep you thoroughly entranced and get you hoping LUMP might soon inspire its hosts to deliver more.
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Jun 7, 2018A side project should be challenging and unusual; it should stretch the boundaries of the artists involved. Since that is what this characterful, strong, self-contained album does, you really have to like it or lump it.
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Jun 4, 2018“Late to the Flight” is also indicative of Marling’s range on this album: She hits contralto notes on “Shake Your Shelter” and enters soprano territory for multi-tracked harmonies on “Hand Hold Hero.” The instrumentation, almost entirely performed by Mike Lindsay, is more varied than any Marling record to date.
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Jun 1, 2018Lump is brief, but Marling’s gorgeously uncanny melodies--which, like Lindsay’s synth sounds, have an other-timely quality--are dazzling enough to linger indefinitely.
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Jun 1, 2018With each track melting into each other, LUMP feels like a self-contained trip, giving no hints as to the future of the project outside this release, but holding plenty of wonder inside.
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May 31, 2018LUMP, a collaboration between Tunng founder Mike Lindsay and Laura Marling, is cool and enveloping, a mesh of luminous electronic textures and subtly placed instruments, all arranged around Marling’s silvery voice, often doubled or overlapping in harmony.
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May 31, 2018If the results could always mesmerise and captivate as much as LUMP’s too-brief debut, perhaps we’d listen and follow suit.
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MojoMay 30, 2018This collaboration was always going to produce something sonically elegant. Accordingly, this six-song cycle is built around a drone, its individual tracks manifesting as if in curls of smoke. [Jul 2018, p.93]
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Q MagazineMay 30, 2018The sense here is of two artists drawing creative sustenance from new light. [Jul 2018, p.112]
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May 30, 2018Both artists sound far more liberated here than on each of their separate solo projects; it’s a collaboration many will want to continue.
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Jun 8, 2018If LUMP is a commentary on the commodification of art and the self, then its final minutes suggest the duality of music as a commodity.
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Jun 4, 2018We’re totally invested in Lump’s plight, watching it fight off numbness with two dead and flailing arms. But mainly because the tones here are wonderful.
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Jun 1, 2018LUMP is a creation that both composers stressed passed through them and they look upon parentally and this is evident as an articulation of the artistic detail of the contemporary, through Lindsay’s colourful soundscapes.
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May 30, 2018These six tracks (seven if you count the two minutes in which Marling reads album credits) are in the same key, a technique that creates a seamless sense of direction for the record. LUMP, it seems, is a creature of its own will: a living, breathing piece of art.
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Jun 4, 2018The tracks continue to balance deep, droning synths and fuzzy percussion with Marling’s folkish phrasing and occasional, vaulting shifts in pitch, to not much effect.
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UncutMay 30, 2018Inexorable forward movement is shadowed by existential dread. [Jul 2018, p.30]
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Jun 4, 2018Lindsay’s wonky music, meanwhile--he plays most of the instruments--benefits hugely from the strength of Marling’s voice and persona. The only bum note is that there isn’t more Lump to treasure.
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Jun 17, 2018