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Jul 25, 2013Ambitious, experimental and brilliant, The Inheritors is a unique release that confirms James Holden's place not only as a DJ to watch, but also as a producer to pay close attention to.
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Jul 25, 2013It's peaceful and distantly serene, but with flickers of dissonance rubbing away at the edges. Those contrasting textures are part of what makes The Inheritors perhaps the year's most revealing and intriguing album yet.
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Jul 25, 2013While The Inheritors isn’t the pinnacle avant-garde electronic music it’s hailed as, it’s a damn fine collection of songs.
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Jul 25, 2013It's the sound of an artist uniquely in tune with his instrument, as Holden coaxes all manner of beastly noise out of his mighty modular synthesizer, trying to keep that sound organized and only sometimes succeeding.
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Nov 20, 2013For such a dense, sprawling, heady piece of music, The Inheritors has a surprisingly light touch to it, even a playfulness, that shows just how in control of his tools (including the album form) James Holden is.
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Jul 25, 2013Listeners won't walk away with a clear narrative about The Inheritors, which is designed for nonlinear exploration. It doesn't pay off all its risks—at times it gets too blurry to follow--but this album sounds like little else.
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MojoJul 25, 2013[A] stunning musical response to Lord of the Flies author William Golding's daring novelistic excursion into prehistoric anthropology. [Jul 2013, p.85]
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UncutJul 25, 2013The Inheritors is a fiercely original feast of experimental sound. [Jul 2013, p.76]
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Jul 25, 2013It’s an impressive achievement--and, what’s more, one that’s likely to piss of his fans a treat.
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Jul 25, 2013The Inheritors is an extraordinary, unique record from one of electronic music’s most vivid minds.
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Jul 25, 2013The Inheritors is a rich and vivid work that is as mysterious as it is compelling.
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Jul 25, 2013Clocking in at over 75 minutes, The Inheritors is an exhausting, complex and disorientating listen, but one that will stay with you.
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Jul 25, 2013This is the music of ritual, an electronic folk chimera of primordial pagan beats, ancient and timeless yet psychedelically futurist.
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Jul 25, 2013The Inheritors jumps and squeals and writhes and blossoms. It’s music that you can’t help but hear as if you were a kid again.
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Jul 25, 2013It is beautiful, ethereal and organic, breathing with life and is as far removed from the clean overly produced dance music which he holds in such distain. It has been a long wait, but on this showing it has certainly been worth it.
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Jul 25, 2013A glorious mix of the human and machine where you don’t know what you’re going to get until it happens. It’s the best kind of surprise.
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