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- Summary: Producer Barry Lynn, who is better known under his Boxcutter alias, releases his first album under the Host name.
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- Record Label: Planet Mu
- Genre(s): Electronic, Club/Dance, Experimental Techno, Ambient Techno
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Positive: 7 out of 10
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Mixed: 3 out of 10
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Negative: 0 out of 10
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Mar 27, 2012The result is honed and sophisticated, unique yet smartly referential.
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Mar 29, 2012For all its referential qualities, this is a record that is confident in its own distinct character.
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Apr 10, 2012This album strikes an intriguing, if slightly schizophrenic, balance between gently meandering almost-psychedelia and the restless rhythmic activity of recent dance styles.
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Mar 27, 2012While it perhaps doesn't achieve all it sets out to, it is regardless an intriguing, immersive combination of old and new.
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Mar 27, 2012It's a series of vignettes and at its best it reminds me of amorphous copy/paste artists like Prefuse 73, musicians who wormed their way into a genre by nibbling at its edges.
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Mar 30, 2012Much like the surrounding semblance, densely concealed behind a name with clear sci-fi connotations, the music on The Host can be difficult to really get into.
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UncutApr 6, 2012Sometimes beautiful, although an ADD-ish attention span means it occasionally comes off somewhat lacking in character. [May 2012, p.75]