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Mind Elevation Image
Metascore
65

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  • Summary: The British techno pioneer(s) (now down to just one founding member, George Evelyn), return with their first studio album in three years.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Alternative Press
    90
    A blissed-out menagerie of subtly morphing beats and elegant melodies within a dub framework. [Oct 2002, p.88]
  2. Uncut
    80
    The perfect soundtrack to summer in the city. [Oct 2002, p.111]
  3. 80
    A good chunk of soulful melody tinged with delightful, lackadaisical vocals and reggae vibrations.
  4. Magnet
    60
    The album fares best when Evelyn lets his sampler do the talking. [#56, p.101]
  5. Q Magazine
    60
    This friskier, fresher take on Evelyn's previous fare is especially well judged bearing in mind that the last thing the world needs is another chill-out album. [Sep 2002, p.111]
  6. Maybe while stoned it makes sense, but sober, Mind Elevation is more confusing than uplifting.
  7. Blender
    40
    Like Morcheeba at their worst. [#10, p.124]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. BrianJ.
    Sep 12, 2002
    7
    lots of brilliant beats and vocals but in general a bit confusing