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Sep 26, 2011They've managed an interesting blend of that style with the free-form structures of film soundtracking, the results of which are intriguing although rarely crucial.
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Oct 19, 2011Over a distant wash of keyboards chords, Plaid create a multilayered drift of what sounds like piano and tuned percussion notes. The effect is, literally, scintillating.
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Sep 26, 2011Here they've created a retro cinema soundtrack to an '80s sci-fi romance.
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MojoDec 22, 2011The cascading ping and pop of 35 Summers and arpeggiated digital melancholy of Unbank is evidence of Plaid's empathy with this most beguiling of music forms. [Nov 2011, p.103]
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Sep 28, 2011Scintilli is a disappointingly static record from a duo of born tinkerers.
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Q MagazineNov 8, 2011Scintilli slowly builds an all-absorbing world, [with] tension between fear and beauty. [Nov. 2011, p. 139]
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Nov 3, 2011Perhaps most frustratingly, Scintilli doesn't have as much of a sense of continuum as the aforementioned trilogy--which is something that any good album should have.
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Sep 26, 2011Here, they find unsuspected connections between disparate sounds.
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Oct 14, 2011It'll be comforting to know that Plaid certainly haven't 'lost it', that said they haven't strayed far enough outside their comfort zone in order to do so.
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The WireDec 5, 2011It's actually more pleasurable to pick a track at random and leave it on loop. [Sep 2011, p.56]
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Oct 26, 2011There is a poise about Scintilli in its strongest moments that was absent even from those early blazed trails.
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UncutOct 3, 2011In their own way and in their own time, it's progress. [Oct 2011, p.95]
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Under The RadarNov 9, 2011Scintilli's pieces are as varied as ever, but carefully drawn, like working on separate days with blowtorch-on-metal or in purple and blue oils. [Oct. 2011, p. 113]
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Sep 27, 2011Plaid's sixth proper studio album, Scintilli, is hard to place stylistically, but nonetheless offers plenty of enjoyable head-scratching moments, along with a straight-up tune or two.