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- Summary: Perhaps finding "Chantal Passamonte" too dull a name for an experimental electronica artist signed to Warp Records, the former Warp publicist adopted the Mira Calix moniker prior to her 2000 debut. This is her second full-length release.
- Record Label: Warp
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Positive: 5 out of 11
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Mixed: 6 out of 11
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Skimskitta is a beautiful album. It is warm and enveloping. It is full of shadows but flashes with brilliance. It is oblique, yet often familiar. It is intelligent, inventive and inspiring. And it is very hard to put into words.
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The WireA fastidiously crafted and appealingly damp hour of digital earthsong. [#229, p.57]
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MojoAn unconventional beauty. [March 2003, p.114]
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An hour of delicately portentous electronics that are not so much haunting as haunted, each sonic element sneaking upon another and spooking it out.
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Q MagazineMood music in extremis. [Apr 2003, p.110]
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This is an ambitious album that aims high but falls short.
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Skimskitta's refusal or lack of ability to move beyond sketchy hisses and glitches makes for a too sprawling, too unfocused affair.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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ChisLFeb 13, 2005Engaging,unusual and beautiful.Sounds different with every listen.
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