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- Summary: The second full-length release for the California hip-hop producer features influences from R&B, drum 'n' bass, and ambient music.
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- Record Label: Ninja Tune
- Genre(s): Electronic, Experimental Ambient
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MojoJul 8, 2015One of the most surprising ambient albums of the year. [Aug 2015, p.95]
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Jul 8, 2015Pattern of Excel shows the latest brilliant incarnation of an artist who's sure to have many in the years to come.
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Aug 10, 2015Pattern Of Excel succeeds during those little moments that capture Bannon's way with mood and melody.
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Jul 8, 2015Pattern of Excel is similarly idiosyncratic--it feels, in many ways, like a fistful of sketches torn from the notebook and tossed to the wind. Making sense of the ways they fall is part of the pleasure of this quiet, cryptic record.
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MagnetJul 8, 2015It's a loosely coherent mood piece that, despite (mostly) maintaining a murky, somnambulant vibe, nevertheless leapfrogs around an impressive scrapheap of refurbished ideas. [No. 122, p.55]
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Jul 16, 2015The 15 songs are relatively short by ambient standards, which makes the album feel like a collection of sketches.
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Jul 22, 2015Sadly, Bannon’s ambient music struggles with a staggering lack of presence that his heady breakbeat programming never failed to accentuate.... The rest of Pattern of Excel seems to follow that trajectory toward more acoustic and gloomy sounds, by far the most effective section of the album, though not exactly innovative.
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