by
Shackleton
- Record Label: Woe To The Septic Heart!
- Release Date: Dec 4, 2012
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Jun 6, 2012There's so much blood and soul poured into Music for the Quiet Hour that it almost feels effortless. Along with the fascinatingly fragmented Drawbar Organ EPs, the box set presents what's either a closing chapter or a new beginning in the career of one of electronic music's most luminous illuminati.
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Jun 6, 2012Everything that makes Shackleton's sound a singular one is on proud display through this extensive compilation of new material.
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Jun 6, 2012The set might get a little long in the tooth, even in its individual parts, but on both parts Shackleton is treading fresh ground in a whole different solar system than the rest of dance music and all its various eccentrics.
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Jun 6, 2012The overall impression is of a lamp shone directly into the darkened corners of Shackleton's music, casting all its hidden detail in sharp relief.
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Jun 6, 2012It's not without faults, but overall it's a undoubtedly a very welcome gift.
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Dec 10, 2012It's a brilliant exploration of the inevitable interaction between sound, the passing of time and the active process of listening.
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Aug 9, 2012Continuing to mystify audiences with ethereal, oft-experimental electronic music, Shackleton delivers one of the finest jewels of 2012.
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Jul 25, 2012What Shackleton has done with this mammoth album is create a full-bodied, visceral experience that meditates on the nature of the essence of a sound in a time and the space of time in which it appears, and the narration only presents the voice as the confrontation with time.
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The WireJul 24, 2012Ultimately, these elements mostly serve to contextualize some beautifully conceived programmed music within an edgier club culture. [Jul 2012, p.62]
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Jun 21, 2012Drawbar Organ / Quiet Hour takes that fascination [with dub] and grinds it in the back molars, spitting out something lumpy, infirm, and wonderfully transformed.
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Jun 21, 2012Shackleton, if there was any doubt, can do big picture and tight focus equally well; he can lead us into the future musically while digging in his heels against the one that's actually in store.
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