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  • Summary: The latest full-length solo release for the British cellist who has worked with Radiohead and Mica Levi features a guest appearance from Malibu.
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
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  1. The Wire
    Nov 24, 2020
    80
    With his propensity for collaboration across disciplines, Coates blends classical training with an ear for invention. [Nov 2020, p.55]
  2. Nov 24, 2020
    80
    While Coates favors simple, stately toplines, the record’s underbelly suggests fathomless depths; instead of sprawling outward, like Shelley’s on Zenn-La, the songs pirouette before plunging into the abyss. The album’s splicing of beauty and horror invokes the morbid logic of Greek mythology, where stirrings of triumph tend to foreshadow nasty surprises.
  3. Nov 24, 2020
    80
    By the end, you’ll hopefully find that skins n slime is a perfect title for a record this overwhelmingly layered and engrossing.
  4. Mojo
    Nov 24, 2020
    80
    British cellist and Radiohead collaborator has created something darker but much more impressive [than 2018's Shelley's On Zann-La]. [Dec 2020, p.87]