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  • Summary: The latest full-length release for British electronic producer Matthew Herbert features sounds recorded at his farm and vocals from Allie Armstrong, Daisy Godfrey, Joy Morgan, Mel Uye-Parker, Bianca Rose, Siân Roseanna, Verushka, and Y'akoto.
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  • Record Label: Accidental
  • Genre(s): Electronic, House, Techno, Club/Dance, Experimental Techno, Left-Field House, Jazz-House, Electro-Techno, Tech-House, Microhouse, Deep House
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  1. Mojo
    Dec 21, 2021
    80
    Musca is far more than filler. Opening with the crunching sweep of two Doors, Herbert sets sail on a (wonky-ish) 4/4 course. Hypnotised is moody, throbbing house with a UK garage skip. [Nov 2021, p.91]
  2. Dec 21, 2021
    80
    Thousands of artists will have spent the last 18 months writing music about being stuck at home, but very few will have realised said music by banging bits of their actual house. In doing so, Herbert may have produced the quintessential lockdown project.
  3. Dec 21, 2021
    70
    An album that's both intimate and communal, composed of small sounds and textures but expressing bigger feelings, particularly through the guest vocalists. "Fantasy" is easily the album's most memorable tune, cleverly snaking flutes and manipulated vocal hooks around Verushka's passionate, yearning lyrics.
  4. The Wire
    Dec 21, 2021
    70
    Fortunately, aside from this piece “Let Me Sleep”], the banal Clark-adjacent string spiccatos of “The Horror” and certain sections that drag on and on, this is compelling, bodymoving and occasionally inspired music. [Dec 2021, p.