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Q MagazineMar 11, 2013The tempo seldom rises beyond a twitch, or Buttery's voice above a murmur, News From Nowhere is warm and confident. [Apr 2013, p.99]
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UncutFeb 5, 2013The bucolic reverie can't mask the suspicion that something vital is missing. [Mar 2013, p.69]
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Feb 5, 2013On News from Nowhere, Darkstar have completed their transformation from playing in an overexposed genre to being in an irresolute one.
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Feb 4, 2013Lighter and more colorful than North, News from Nowhere begins sleepily and then flits between spacious and cluttered moments, often within one song.
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The WireFeb 28, 2013Its balance of electronic, acoustic and vocal elements, while initially impressive, is soon revealed to be a product of the lack of any forceful musical or textual elements at all. [Feb 2013, p.60]
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Feb 5, 2013Offering the same level of meticulousness as North isn't quite good enough for News from Nowhere, which serves up a wonderfully lush but ultimately rudderless slice of droning electronica that's much too imitative to be anything other than a pleasant distraction.
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Feb 4, 2013You can sense what Darkstar wants to create--music that’s genre-less, accessible yet mysterious--but they haven’t found a way to compensate for the rougher finishes they’ve stripped from their work.