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Apr 29, 2014This is not a record for the faint-hearted. Hell, it should come with a health warning, but if you give it a chance you'll be rewarded with the most innovative electronic albums in a long time.
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May 21, 2014That's Harakiri isn't trying to be a dance floor album--it's trying to unsettle the listener. And it's succeeding.
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MagnetMay 19, 2014That's Harakiri never loses its human touch. [No. 109, p.61]
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Apr 25, 2014Plenty of new producers are doing interesting things on the outer fringes of the style--Filter Dread is probably Runge’s closest contemporary--but nobody sounds quite like this.
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Apr 25, 2014His music marries complexity with club-ready thump, resulting in a dystopian dancehall of morbid booty shaking.
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May 1, 2014Noise interference is ramped up, as are counterintuitive rhythms and ugly chords, only to tie them all together into an unexpected sort of cohesion.
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May 13, 2014SD Laika compresses space to the point that That's Harakiri becomes constricted by its own sheer density; appropriately, the album is suggestive of inner space, one that is seemingly fraught with anxiety. As a result it's difficult to sustain such energy and tracks seem to be rapidly exhausted, most are less than three minutes. But such are the ideas and impact of them that they linger a lot longer.
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Apr 28, 2014From beginning to end, it moves from tense sound collages toward polyrhythmic music that can be danced to--but the progression isn’t explicit, and neither is anything else.
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Apr 28, 2014These tracks amuse and torment in roughly equal measure.
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Apr 25, 2014At 32 minutes, it’s a short album--but one whose brashness and pace you won’t soon forget.
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Apr 25, 2014Sd Laika seemingly bucks myriad electronic music trends to create a body of work that harkens back to the genre's classic beginnings.