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Jun 20, 2014Ostro is a very good album, and it's one that sticks with you the more you let it.
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Q MagazineJun 20, 2014Despite the hypnotic repetition at its core, it's surprisingly tuneful. [Jul 2014, p.109]
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Jun 20, 2014‘Archaic Revival’ is the centre-point though; nine minutes of tension-gripped, creeping bass and echoed mantras, its queasiness adds a weight of darkness to this mesmerising trip.
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Jun 20, 2014Although there's not much here to blow you away, it does seem that the Lay Llamas have stumbled upon a useful synthesis of those fashionable psych touchstones--repetitious afro, spacey synth kraut and churning fuzz guitar--which earns a rightful place amongst the rest of the crop.
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Jun 20, 2014Gioele Valenti and Nicola Giunta have created an album that is not a gale, or a draught; it is an engaging, sonic zephyr.
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Jun 20, 2014Certainly there’s something mystical at work here, but, as with the rest of the album, the real fun is to be found when fully immersed in these hypnotic grooves.