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- Summary: The sixth album for Brooklyn-based electronic artist Daniel Lopatin utilizes samples of 1980's commercials.
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- Record Label: Mexican Summer
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Positive: 29 out of 32
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Mixed: 3 out of 32
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Nov 4, 2011It's unlike anything else in Lopatin's discography, not just a bold step sideways, but something like an epistemological break from an artist whose work increasingly bears the weight of something like hegemony.
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Nov 15, 2011With a heavier reliance on piano and this newer emphasis on these samples, it's an astounding achievement in a young career already marked by solid works.
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Nov 4, 2011Put simply, nobody else could make music quite like this, no matter which part of the electronic fringe they might call home. Daniel Lopatin is in the zone.
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Nov 8, 2011It's rare that that source material is specifically evident while listening; at best it functions on a more energetic, subconscious level, making the typically nebulous sonic nostalgia of the chillwave/hypnagogic pop movement.
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Dec 13, 2011Part of Lopatin's considerable appeal is his apparent refusal to settle.
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Nov 11, 2011With Replica, synth-dreamer Daniel Lopatin heads into the Mexican Summer studio to create something more expansive than some of his recent CD-R efforts, and less of the distorto-R&B pop he created with Joel Ford on Channel Pressure.
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Under The RadarNov 9, 2011There are moments of minor success (mostly in the first half), but these are moments that rely the least on samples, retracing some of Returnal's dark, boundless, ambient journeys. [Oct. 2011, p. 113]
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Positive: 7 out of 7
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Mixed: 0 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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Nov 21, 2011You have to be really skilled to take a bunch of the â
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Nov 24, 2011album with a great concept ( â
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