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Nov 10, 2016Clocking in at 56 minutes, Primitives doesn’t overstay its welcome by overreaching yet it shows that Bayonne has more tricks up his sleeve, which he should easily be able to demonstrate in his live shows.
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MojoNov 1, 2016Primitives finds him channeling the celestial overlaid vocals of AnCo, Toro Y Moi's soaring gauzy electronic pop, the live, looping sample techniques of tUnE-yArDs and D.D. Dumbo, and even Steve Reich's shuddering, percussive experiments in repetition--with charming results. [Dec 2016, p.93]
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Nov 1, 2016There’s smart composition without sacrificing accessibility, and ambition without sacrificing cohesion.
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Nov 1, 2016Sellers has the distinct tics of a (significantly but not entirely) self-taught musician but also flexible stylistic impulses that keep Primitives at arm’s length from rigid genre tags.
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Nov 1, 2016On the ambient side, tracks often play into one another with quiet transitions, making single-track play potentially abrupt.
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Nov 10, 2016All of these references are used so tastefully as to nullify any potential excitement, making for a record that will wash over you pleasantly, without leaving much of a mark.
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Nov 3, 2016At times, this record can come across as little more than a variation on one of those CDs of new age music designed for meditation and spiritual well-being--Marim, for example, is a collage of pan-pipe-like sounds and water noises, and Omar could feasily belong to the type of compilation called Rainforest Colours--but there are some treats here.
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Nov 1, 2016Bayonne twists and folds thousands of layers and loops, utilising the echoes of old pianos and draining sinks to add some earth to his technical wizardry.
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Nov 1, 2016Electronic music edges ever so slowly toward nausea, a tendency to turn music into math. The best artists fight this with loving restraint. Bayonne is close to the mark, but there might be a few times when you reach for the volume and just say “enough” with the looping. Then there are times when it does work, as on the song “Spectrolite” with a heavier emphasis on analog instruments.