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The WireApr 5, 2013The album doesn't wear so well over time. [Mar 2013, p.50]
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Mar 28, 2013Miami still isn't their masterpiece, but it suggests they have one in them.
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Mar 26, 2013Miami shows an inventive collective in the act of reinvention, their recorded output transitioning from concepts to compositions to living breathing body-moving songs.
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Mar 25, 2013Miami shows Brandt Brauer Frick to have reached new heights of imagination and technical accomplishment, but it’s undeniably a challenging listen. Break through its forbidding surface, though, and the rewards can be considerable.
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Mar 22, 2013The finest moment is ‘Fantasie Mädchen’, a manic banger on which Gudrun Gut provides borderline psychotic vocals.
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Mar 21, 2013Though Miami displays a jazzier, looser, and often darker side of Brandt Brauer Frick, it doesn't overshadow the classical techno-ensemble sound the trio first introduced on You Make Me Real.
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Mar 19, 2013The album closes as strongly as it begins with "Miami Titles," a thrilling orchestra-hall-meets-club synthesis from a trio that draws from Mahler, Reich, Mills, and Hood as if they're all part of the same lineage.
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Mar 19, 2013It sounds more rigorously composed, but still with the swing that comes from live performers on un-quantized instruments, filtering the rhythms through their singular perspectives.
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Mar 14, 2013An archly dramatic set of compositions.
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MojoMar 13, 2013Miami's best tracks remain (twisted) dancefloor friendly. [Apr 2013, p.95]
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Q MagazineMar 13, 2013It's the music's fiendish complexity and flashes of sublime harmony that captivate. [Apr 2013, p.96]
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Mar 13, 2013A darker, rougher beast than either of its predecessors, it’s a highly expansive piece of work.
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Mar 13, 2013Miami is a record that is hard to get a handle on at times, but it is all the more resonant for it when you eventually fall under its spell.
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Mar 13, 2013Brand Brauer Frick are unquestionably a force to be reckoned with, yet they seem unsure exactly what direction to take: whether to continue to interpret dance music using classical apparatus, or to move down a darker, more avant garde route.
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Mar 13, 2013Miami frustrates and falls well short in terms of capturing hearts as readily as it will minds.