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MojoMar 19, 2015You're left with dual perspectives that aren't quite duets, anthems of vague disquiet, and an utterly satisfying sense of an artist following his own directs and nobody else's. [Apr 2015, p.95]
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Mar 2, 2015Add the devastating title cut plus more memorable melodies than usual, and Shedding Skin might be the Ghostpoet album to begin with for those who prefer something a bit traditional, but with three excellent efforts from the get-go, the point isn't where to start, but to start, because the rewards are consistent and plentiful.
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Mar 2, 2015It’s effectively atmospheric, giving a raw, insomniac groove to the gritty notes draining from electric guitars and a twitch of dirty old fluorescent bulbs in the glitchy drum beats.
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Feb 27, 2015Don't be surprised if Ghostpoet is on Mercury minds once more with this excellent effort.
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Feb 27, 2015Ghostpoet has created a record that feels timeless in a way his scratchy bedroom productions could never have dreamed of.
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Feb 27, 2015The record is alive. It has punch, guts, heart, all the things you would hope for really, whilst at the same time maintaining the central potency of what made Ghostpoet so great in the first place: that voice, delivering paeans to lost love and the reality of life like really no-one else can.
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Feb 27, 2015Beyond a few piano-led lulls, the new Radiohead-tinged direction sounds compelling and thoughtful.
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Mar 4, 2015For what is a hugely bold manoeuvre, he has carried it out with much aplomb.
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Mar 4, 2015Shedding Skin is a bold move for an artist so associated with a different sonic cadence, and kudos to Ejimiwe for trying to artistically reposition himself. Ultimately though, I would have liked to have heard more of an evolution rather than a complete metamorphosis from him.
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