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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 28, 2015Even where his pieces feel unscripted and accidental, they all manage to paint a doomy melancholy which has a filmic charm.
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Jul 10, 2015Unpredictable and ruthlessly abstract, Pattern of Excel is possibly the most avant-garde release in Ninja Tune's long history, and may seem like a stark departure from Lee Bannon's earlier works, but it's really just a continuation of his tendency to follow his fearlessly creative spirit into uncharted territory.
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Jul 14, 2015For an album with a swimming pool on its cover, it doesn’t exactly submerge you in its sonic layers. Rather, it’s a wade through the shallow water heading to the deep end of the pool.
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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 16, 2015Pattern of Excel is a difficult album. It subverts your expectations and deliberately goes against what convention would suggest in terms of direction and vibe.
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Jul 8, 2015Pattern To Excel emerges in fragments, almost painlessly, with every inch of space filled, all the darlings still written.
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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.