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Sep 6, 2017This is a relatively brief album but one so rich and with such a definite sense of itself that it’s hard to feel shortchanged; Demen gives us a rapturously enchanting world to live in, but one you could imagine becoming too much.
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May 30, 2017Demen's debut album is worth listening to in its own right, regardless of any nostalgia for the 4AD sound. She takes a studied-sounding array of influences from contemporary ambient and drone, infusing them with a more operatic, vocalised melancholy.
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UncutMay 30, 2017Sombre but spellbindingly ethereal nostalgia. [Jun 2017, p.28]
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May 30, 2017Nektyr would've been perfectly at home on 4AD or Projekt during the late '80s or early '90s, and might have been among their best releases, but its weightlessness and otherworldliness can't be attached to any specific time period.
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May 30, 2017The record is strikingly patient and meditative, even to the point of being hypnotic.