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- Summary: The latest full-length release for the Wire's Colin Newman and his wife Malka Spiegel features contributions from Holy Fuck's Matt Schulz as well as Gil Luz and Asi Weitz of Hexenschuss.
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- Record Label: Swim
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Q MagazineJun 19, 2018The fifth outing as Immersion finds the couple at their most sumptuous. [Summer 2018, p.110]
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Jul 25, 2018Too strident to be remotely ambient, and too thoroughly liquid to be pure post punk, Sleepless is the kind of album you simply fall for, in a way that you embrace something that sounds familiar but almost aggressively fresh and vibrant; and like seductive but unnerving classics by Pink Floyd, PiL, Roedelius, Riley or Eno, it wraps you in fur but never quite allows you to relax.
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Jun 19, 2018Immersion do well to paint imagery in the listeners mind with, “The Humming Sea” rising up with an ocean of analogue synth pad like sounds representative of this image as though it is a reality. It is this ability to create an easily interpreted image of the sounds that make this album so easily accessible to a listener.
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Jun 25, 2018The rebooted Immersion sounds far more engaging than the project's original incarnation, which had a tendency to meander, and Sleepless is certainly one of its best efforts.
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Jun 19, 2018Some, like the preset pings and warbles in “MS19” and “Io,” will also test just how much kitsch you take in your kosmische. Still, there are frequent spacey pleasures to latch onto, and an evident, infectious joy in its creation.
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MojoJul 23, 2018With its shuffling drums and strong tune, Microclimate has a song-like feel, while the title track is very different in mood as it gently pulses with restless rhythmic tics and a melancholic, meandering keyboard line. [Sep 2018, p.93]
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Jul 31, 2018It's easy to believe that the duo's dynamic range must not come through on their albums as successfully as on stage, making an album like Sleepless a partway muted affair. It's still an enjoyable collection performed by a highly capable team--it's just not the sound of potential being fully realized.