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May 9, 2012The majority of the album places Actress closer to the superbly creative, evocative, and mind-altering terrain inhabited by Oneohtrix Point Never, with detectable traces of early-'80s Roedelius and Moebius, as well as Autechre.
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Apr 30, 2012Something about them is essentially alien--yet, very probably, that is the source of their strange, uncanny power.
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Apr 27, 2012To call it album of the year at this stage wouldn't so much be pre-emption as an actual understatement.
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Jun 6, 2012R.I.P. is at its most basic a beautiful electronic album, as rewarding as it is challenging.
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May 25, 2012He's gone several steps further away from standard dance structure and into abstraction and ambience here – and it's all the better for it.
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May 18, 2012On his masterful third album, Actress perfects a thrilling sonic aletheia that simultaneously reveals and conceals, opens and closes, remembers and experiences anew, giving some insight into the truth of post-rave electronic music as it has developed over the past 20 years, into both frame and artwork, stage and actress.
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May 18, 2012R.I.P. (Honest Jon's) is the most mysterious of the Actress records yet, and the one most suggestive of dream states.
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May 18, 2012R.I.P. rewards background play just as much as concentrated listening, if not more so.
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Apr 30, 2012Splazsh's followup simply doesn't hold the same tension or drive.
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Apr 30, 2012Whilst R.I.P. certainly has some of the cold detachment that often characterises electronic music, it is also a remarkably thoughtful and creative work that has clearly benefited from a more personal and human compositional approach.
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Apr 26, 2012The innovation on R.I.P. is to put as much effort into making things clean as making them dirty, and the result is a sense of contrast: Fog gives way to clarity; fat, puffy synthesizer sounds play off pinprick-sharp ones. Like all good contrasts, it's simple and eureka-like.
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Apr 25, 2012The seemingly strange power that Actress has is to disorient the listener (i.e., the visceral shock accompanying the tonally maximal "Shadow From Tartarus"), though this contrast mostly allows for R.I.P.'s intricate and detailed beauty to thrive just beneath the cracks.
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Apr 24, 2012R.I.P is Actress continually shifting and exploring, growing and rippling, being himself in the only Statement-less way he knows how. Its 15 songs aren't for everyone and with few overt melodies, it's definitely not for everyone.
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Apr 23, 2012'R.I.P.' is both an update on the bass explorations of restless Britain and perhaps a timeless thesaurus of blistered tones and ideas that younger producers will beg, borrow and steal from for years to come.
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Apr 23, 2012What does set this apart from Actress' earlier pieces is the incredibly organic feel that this album seems to thrive on.
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Apr 20, 2012R.I.P is a fantastical, fascinating album: as Actress intended, it feels not really of this world.
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Apr 19, 2012R.I.P practically begs to be handled, examined, shuffled and rotated in every direction, the better to identify each tiny grain of sand and dirt that's gone into its construction.
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Apr 19, 2012It's an album that envelops even as it blurs and drifts, its hooks no less insistent for their subtlety.
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Apr 19, 2012R.I.P. is the most enveloping and fully developed of his cultivated soundworlds yet.
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Jun 15, 2012It's the sound of a DJ just getting started after everyone's gone home.
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May 9, 2012Now that the percussive elements are conspicuously absent, however, Actress requires a more thorough listen–and those that give it full attention will be rewarded with layers upon
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 25
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Mixed: 2 out of 25
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Negative: 0 out of 25
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