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Jul 13, 2018Everywhere, analog instruments accelerate at such incredible speeds that their tones seem at once both fully physical and fully digital; they’re undeniably both of these things and yet it’s impossible to hear them as anything but a unified whole.
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Jul 12, 2018Ultimately, the album's message is one of fearlessness and self-empowerment, and it's the most inspiring work Lotic has crafted.
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Jul 13, 2018While Power conjures up one of the most hectic, impenetrable, and eclectic listening experiences of the year, it’s above all, a true rags to riches story, one that complexingly captures a struggling artist on the verge of fulfilling immense potential.
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The WireJul 26, 2018There’s still no shortage of the epic thumps and crashes that made Lotic such an exciting prospect in their early days, except now they have more space. Instead of overwhelming a listener with the persistent high of audio ultraviolence, it allows for more subtle dynamics. [Aug 2018, p.57]
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Jul 17, 2018Lotic has pushed the envelope sonically, and compositionally, to create a brave and breathtaking view of gender in 2018 and, ultimately, what it means to be alive.
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Jul 17, 2018Morgan sings and raps on the LP, the first time they've used their voice on their records. That helps make Power their most accessible release. The singing is charmingly unpolished.
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Jul 16, 2018The result is a fearless and powerful debut.
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Jul 12, 2018Through it all, Lotic maintains a deep sense of nuance, sounds constantly morphing and remaining grippingly vital, still with great emotional intensity around every corner.
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Jul 10, 2018On Power, Lotic shows that there are no boundaries and no blueprint to their craft, both musically and conceptually.
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Jul 10, 2018Overall, Power is a highly impressive body of work from a producer who continues to engage and surprise with each release.
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Jul 10, 2018Many of the passages in this record are stunning, with Morgan providing hooks that are simply mesmerizing.
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Jul 16, 2018On Power, Lotic re-harnesses their production proficiency toward a trickier goal than what they’ve attempted in the past. In the center of their elaborate electronic constructions, they’ve staged their deeply human terrors and triumphs, and traced the way the power structures of the world flow around them.
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Jul 17, 2018Vacillating between synthetic noise and vulnerable vocals, Lotic turns dance music textures into abstract expressionism--the results are sometimes protest, sometimes singer-songwriter statement, sometimes sheer dystopia, but usually fascinating.
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UncutJul 10, 2018Throughout the record there's a thoughtful restraint tot he compositions, swerving back and forth between quiet euphoria and shell-shocked dystopia. [Aug 2018, p.30]
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Jul 13, 2018This is a clanging, disruptive splatter of a debut, which speaks to the frustration of otherness through sheer feeling, rather than easily digestible vocals.
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Q MagazineJul 10, 2018It's a tough listen--Lotic's aural trademark, a kind of restless arrhythmia, can be exhausting--but pays off with dazzling highs such as Bulletproof, the blueprint for a reconstructed avant-pop paradigm. [Aug 2018, p.113]