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7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings

  • Summary: The debut full-length release for the Houston-born and Berlin-based electronic producer J'Kerian Morgan was inspired partly by marching bands and Ta-Nehisi Coates' "Between The World And Me."
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  1. Jul 13, 2018
    91
    Everywhere, 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.
  2. Jul 13, 2018
    85
    While 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.
  3. Jul 10, 2018
    80
    Many of the passages in this record are stunning, with Morgan providing hooks that are simply mesmerizing.
  4. Jul 10, 2018
    80
    On Power, Lotic shows that there are no boundaries and no blueprint to their craft, both musically and conceptually.
  5. Jul 17, 2018
    80
    Lotic 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.
  6. Jul 17, 2018
    70
    Vacillating 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.
  7. Q Magazine
    Jul 10, 2018
    60
    It'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]

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