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Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Sep 21, 2012
    80
    With Steam Days, Fake returns to the fuzzy melodies and subtle, static-laced gleam that marked not only much of his best early work but also his better remixes.
  2. Sep 12, 2012
    80
    Steam Days should finally break Fake free of Boards of Canada's imposing shadow. Fake is for real.
  3. Sep 4, 2012
    80
    It's certainly more nuanced and wide-ranging. It's all the better for it.
  4. Aug 31, 2012
    80
    This is an extremely fine piece of work, another auspicious addition to the already impressive Border Community canon.
  5. Aug 29, 2012
    80
    Plunge through this piece of technical mastery and don't forget to take your shoes off.
  6. Sep 4, 2012
    70
    What holds this album back is a lack of direction and the vision necessary to pull his intelligent, melodic techno into a new musical landscape.
  7. Uncut
    Aug 30, 2012
    70
    It's clear that if he wants to, he could easily command proceedings alongside his pals Walls and Four Tet. [Sep 2012, p.75]
  8. 70
    It's managed that rarest of feats, a techno record with a heart.
  9. Aug 27, 2012
    70
    Steam Days is a worthwhile--if slightly unseasonal--listen.
  10. Aug 27, 2012
    62
    You could reasonably argue that this is Fake's most well-rounded record to date; the bigger question is whether such small refinements to such an established, well-trodden genre should merit attention from anyone other than diehards at this stage in the game.

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