• Record Label: Sub Pop
  • Release Date: Aug 26, 2016
Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 10
  2. Negative: 0 out of 10
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  1. Aug 25, 2016
    80
    Lots of people are making music like this in 2016, but very few are making it this impressively.
  2. Mojo
    Aug 12, 2016
    80
    A powerful intoxicant rather than just another retro genre exercise. [Sep 2016, p.92]
  3. Uncut
    Aug 12, 2016
    80
    Morgan Delt has moved to Sub Pop and upped the ambition for this excellent follow-up. [Sep 2016, p.73]
  4. Aug 24, 2016
    75
    Despite the druggy haze and obscured vocals, this is a humanistic album that feels like a culmination of minds, rather than the work of one person.
  5. Sep 15, 2016
    70
    The longing in Morgan’s voice separates this from whatever other indie pop record you tried and failed to enjoy this year. He isn’t concerned with hiding what records influenced him, only in making you remember why you loved them in the first place.
  6. Sep 2, 2016
    70
    Phase Zero might not be as rough around the edges as its predecessor, but it’s still a strange and unusual beast. It is debt to its influences at times, but also idiosyncratic and mysterious enough to stand on its own two feet.
  7. Aug 19, 2016
    70
    Morgan Delt's Phase Zero navigates that thin line between rêverie and acid trip, drawing an accepted state of temporary and discreet insanity.
  8. Aug 22, 2016
    68
    Sometimes what seems like a forward move turns out to be a lateral one, and right now it's an open question whether Delt’s more professional environs were preferable to his messy charm.
  9. Aug 12, 2016
    60
    Delt’s high voice and pretty 60s-harking melodies make even Phase Zero’s fastest-tempo track feel decidedly chilled. It’s not always clear what message these melodies intend to impart as many of them remain clouded in a fog of heady effects.
  10. Aug 12, 2016
    60
    All in all a gracious record, and one that grows on the listener.

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