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78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 9
  2. Negative: 0 out of 9
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  1. Oct 23, 2012
    60
    Sagittarian Domain is a noble quasi-failure, an enjoyable and driven jam that, despite its reliance on certain tired tropes of its obvious Krautrock influences, nevertheless succeeds when it focuses its exploration on texture.
  2. Oct 8, 2012
    80
    [Sagittarian Domain] might not be what you're expecting from the man, but it undeniably works.
  3. Oct 5, 2012
    65
    It's all very well-done, but it's not something that you'll feel much incentive to revisit over and over; an experience worth taking, but not necessarily one worth repeating.
  4. The Wire
    Oct 3, 2012
    90
    This is his second essential album of 2012. [Sep 2012, p.70]
  5. Sep 19, 2012
    70
    Sagittarian Domain is an intriguing offering from Ambarchi, if not something with a great deal of potential for repeat success.
  6. Sep 19, 2012
    80
    Using just guitars, a 70s analog synth for bass, and drums (Ambarchi's first instrument), he has forged an exquisitely balanced and powerful sound whose apparent simplicity belies a multi-layered exercise in displacement and resolution.
  7. Sep 19, 2012
    80
    It's a pleasure from the get-go: a nicely ominous plucked guitar rhythm of a couple of notes is the bed for even more moody feedback wails and fading in/out arcs of feedback.
  8. Sep 19, 2012
    73
    Here Ambarchi shows how sharp about-turns and starkly dissimilar contrasts can be equally potent.
  9. Uncut
    Sep 19, 2012
    70
    A perfect introduction to a musician currently in full stride. [Oct 2012, p.71]

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