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Mar 19, 2013Nostalchic has a certain airiness, a focus on floaty atmospherics, that aligns it with the work of other washed-out boudoir crooners such as The Weeknd and How to Dress Well.
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Mar 20, 2013There are a couple of lesser tracks on Nostalchic and it’s up for debate as to how well Howard sticks the landing on the LP format, but Lapalux is a singular talent and his debut is evidence of that even if the pieces don’t all quite click neatly into place.
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Mar 19, 2013Prone to playing one too many familiar games--the compressed vocals and the clunky convergence of beats ducking down--though as the sole Brit on Brainfeeder, you can’t knock him for being a team player.
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Mar 22, 2013Lapalux has found his home at Brainfeeder, with Nostalchic and its masterful genre crossings a fitting first release.
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Mar 27, 2013Whilst Nostalchic is Lapalux’s most full-bodied work to date, it’s also one of the finer examples of how the recent house-meets-r’n'b explosion can be executed with subtlety and finesse.
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Mar 26, 2013Nostalchic’= is the record you want to be listening to during the afterglow of good sex or a perfect ecstasy trip.
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MojoMar 19, 2013Lapalux has joined the ranks of contemporary electronica's finest, like Flo Lo himself. [Apr 2013, p.95]
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Mar 22, 2013For Howard it’s important to not just make music that sounds interesting; it’s vital to make music that exists in its own little world, unknowable and distinctly alluring. Nostalchic is an album that certainly achieves those aims.
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Mar 28, 2013Keeping solidly in line with the Brainfeeder tradition, Nostalchic is a forward-looking album, warm and comfortable but never obvious.
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Apr 19, 2013An ethereal R&B record overindulging on the ether, Nostalchic curls up at the feet and slowly burrows into the body.
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Q MagazineMar 19, 2013Nostalchic is texturally dense, yes, but made of simply swoonsome stuff. [Apr 2013, p.104]
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UncutMar 29, 2013Lapalux is already in the foothills of greatness. [May 2013, p.73]
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Mar 25, 2013Nostalgic is an exciting journey, but during the moments when Lapalux fails to provide a coherent roadmap, it's a bit too easy for the rest of us to get lost.