• Record Label: ~scape
  • Release Date: Apr 3, 2007
Metascore
82

Universal acclaim - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 10
  2. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Steingarten is a nearly perfect album.
  2. Uncut
    80
    Steingarten combines clipped, Kompakt-style 4/4 funk with a massy dub sensibility reminiscent of Adrian Sherwood's Tackhead productions. [Apr 2007, p.114]
  3. For what it is, it’s just about perfect.
  4. Q Magazine
    80
    Electronic music is seldom this engaging or characterful. [Apr 2007, p.121]
  5. Pole’s technique still relies heavily on the minimal, but Steingarten is garnished with a sonic density lacking on his first three full-lengths.
  6. An ambient record that doesn't bore or get bogged down in its insistence on fading into the background.
  7. Betke hasn’t merely licked his wounds and retreated into familiar territory, but fused some lessons learned from his own back catalog to create a shiny new beast, at once identifiable as his work and yet something tangibly different.
  8. Urb
    80
    Instead of hip-hop, Betke now appears inspired by the hypnotic riddims of Krautrock and the New York art-dance scene of the 1970s. [May 2007, p.97]

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