Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-1984
by Various Artists
Metascore
72

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
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  1. Q Magazine
    Aug 22, 2012
    60
    A fascinating trawl through the post-Talking Book period where black pop first embraced electronics. [Aug 2012, p.109]
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  2. Under The Radar
    Aug 6, 2012
    60
    Fans of all those cold-wave reissues, here's a nice warm wave of funky-ass basement studio soul. [Jun 2012, p.159]
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  3. The Quietus
    Jul 20, 2012
    80
    As ever with compilations of almost-lost treasures such as this, it is the certain out of time quality that is its greatest attribute.
  5. Dusted Magazine
    Jul 20, 2012
    80
    There is an introspective quality to Personal Space.
  6. Drowned In Sound
    Jul 20, 2012
    50
    As an insight to a world within a world of black American music, Personal Space elicits interest. As a compilation, it fails to sustain it very long.
  7. PopMatters
    Jul 20, 2012
    80
    In looking back at this pre-MIDI era and considering where we are now, staggeringly obvious become the true effects of Dr. Robert Moog's lifelong efforts to make electronic music more accessible.
  8. AllMusic
    Jul 20, 2012
    70
    There's a paragraph of informative text for each track, along with sleeve and label scans, to place all of this enjoyable oddness into some kind of context.

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