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- Summary: The fourth full-length release for London-based experimental artist Luke Younger was inspired by balearic disco, industrial, and dub techno music.
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- Record Label: Pan
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Jun 15, 2015Ambiguities can make Olympic Mess's charms difficult to excavate, but it's well worth making the effort to do so.
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Jun 15, 2015In moving away from the vestiges of full-on noise that defined his previous two albums, Luke Younger has paradoxically come up with a work that packs more punch than either.
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The WireJul 27, 2015Again and again the same transition is repeated, as the album slips between the utopian and the real. [Jul 2015, p.49]
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Jun 15, 2015Olympic Mess speaks volumes without utilizing language or conventional musical tropes; it's an experience so captivating that language only breaks the spell.
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Jul 15, 2015Olympic Mess is a gripping sound odyssey which bewilders and occasionally perturbs.
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Jun 19, 2015As ever, the project is a winner off the bat for producing material where no one track resembles the other. Olympic Mess raises the bar, however, in a fashion set off by the invitingly tactile, yet nevertheless challenging work of the past three years.
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MojoJul 6, 2015He [Luke Younger] has blended ghost-echoes of dub, techno, and house to oddly sounding effect. [Aug 2015, p.95]
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