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Ribbons Image
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74

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  • Artist(s): Anneli Drecker
  • Summary: The latest full-length solo release for the British guitarist features vocals from Röyksopp's Anneli Drecker.
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  1. Positive: 3 out of 5
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  1. Jun 21, 2017
    80
    It is a strange but compelling set.
  2. Mojo
    Jun 27, 2017
    80
    Throughout Ribbons, you feel Adam's guitars as much as hear them, his use of drones, volume swells and Eastern-flavoured trickery taking us deep into the mystic. [Aug 2017, p.91]
  3. Uncut
    Jun 21, 2017
    70
    Adams has come up with a captivating set of "sound Paintings" that eschew rock dynamics in favour of slowly shifting abstract patterns in which his guitar is filtered through a polychromatic prism of Tinariwen grooves, Steve Reich pulses, gnawa trance rhythms and droning raga loops. [Aug 2017, p.23]
  4. 60
    For all its apparent homogeneity, there’s considerable diversity in approach, with the resonant, vibes-like tones and cyclical guitar waves of “Strand” a continent apart from the shadowy, almost Krautrock manner of “Fog March”.
  5. Jun 21, 2017
    60
    A seamless fusion that casts a low-key but binding spell.