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Dec 5, 2013You have to wonder whether this is Bonobo appealing to the mass market he's engaged, building atmospheric pop that works better than his rumbles and snorts in a live setting.
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May 10, 2013It’s an accomplished record.
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Apr 10, 2013It might be dismissed as dinner party music by those with a hunger for more experimental fare, but The North Borders is charming, fascinating and a touch mysterious.
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Q MagazineApr 9, 2013This is the sound of someone learning, brilliantly on the job. [May 2013, p.96]
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Apr 8, 2013As distinctive as it is complex, is as much about the journey as its component pieces, commanding all the familiar electronic music components with ease, but infused with the warmth of soul and a kind of cross-continental sophistication.
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Apr 5, 2013Whilst The North Borders is hardly a stylistic leap of faith into the unknown there’s definitely a more confident and varied use of textures and instrumentation than on Black Sands, and it marks a new, very much worthwhile chapter in Bonobo’s continuing story.
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Apr 4, 2013The music sounds slightly repetitive on its own, so he’s smart to collaborate with vocalists.
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Apr 3, 2013Bonobo has given us a great collection of interlacing melodic songs that have real depth and distinction.
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Apr 2, 2013A cursory listen to The North Borders may give a "been there done that" impression at points, but a closer listen reveals just how much he's carefully pushing his own boundaries.
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Apr 1, 2013Fine song structure and an overall album flow that's nearly perfect are things Bonobo regulars might expect at this point, but his discography hasn’t offered up a rainy day soundtrack so fitting until this one, so hope the weatherman has bad news and plan on staying in.
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Apr 1, 2013The North Borders now finds Green secure enough in his craft to command the talents of his guest vocalists and create emotional harmonics.
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Mar 28, 2013The North Borders is as ambitious a record as its predecessor, and it’s just as successful.
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Mar 27, 2013The British producer’s fifth full-length is a worthy successor to his celebrated 2010 set Black Sands.
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Mar 27, 2013The North Borders is a triumph--each listen is a revelation; seemingly it’s a breadth of work that marks a new, exciting era of electronic music.
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Mar 27, 2013The North Borders introduces a host of vocalists to accompany solid arrangements.
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Mar 27, 2013The result is not, unlike many of his peers, a symphony of interlinking tracks, but a collection of individuals that, together, tell a unified story of emotion.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 24 out of 27
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Mixed: 2 out of 27
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Negative: 1 out of 27
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