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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.