Transistor Rhythm
- Addison Groove
- Band Name: Addison Groove
- Record Label: 50 Weapons
- Release Date: Apr 2, 2012
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Apr 10, 201280An engaging album devoid of stagnancy.
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Apr 10, 201270Transistor Rhythm clearly isn't the full-force, wall-to-wall banger album that many were hoping for, but it does show that Addison Groove can successfully and consistently operate in a more relaxed mode.
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Apr 10, 201250The lower your expectations, the better it will seem.
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Apr 10, 201260Transistor Rhythm is a well-made but forgettable album by someone who, given past form, I'd expected more from.
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Apr 10, 201270The result is delirious party music, which, although at times deliciously dumb, is never – as cerebral Addison Groove fan Aphex Twin would attest – stupid.
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Apr 6, 201273It is an album of well-portioned, difficult grooves that owe as much to craftsmanship as they do to scholarship, the sound of a chronic disciple slowing learning to make his influences work for him.
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May 4, 201270You can't knock the songs, but it's hard to swallow whole.
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Apr 13, 201260While the grooves here prove to be equally minimal [to Headhunter], his debut LP is driven by a febrile, wildstyle energy at odds with dubstep's cavernous soundscapes. [May 2012, p.90]
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Apr 10, 201270Thirteen tracks of relatively barebones 808 funk can star to wear, and especially moving at such a (relatively) slow tempo Transistor feels a little bloated by its last third.
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May 7, 201280Its disorienting aspects actually make it a compelling full-length experience, locking you into a maze of drum and echo.
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Apr 11, 201250While Transistor Rhythm ends up as the superbly-produced album that Addison Groove has always hinted at, it's the uniform sterility and refusal to tread water beyond the reach of his peers that stops it from succeeding beyond anything more that simple idol worship.
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Apr 11, 201250It's only at this point, ["Incredible Exhausted Bunny Ears"]... that Transistor Rhythm actually feels vital, resulting in in a luscious closing suite to an otherwise arid record.
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Apr 18, 201270Transistor Rhythm is functional and stylistically up to date yet modestly unique. [Apr 2012, p.68]
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May 10, 201260Transistor Rhythm is an album with a thin atmosphere. There is little reverberation, just repetition, vocal samples repeating without degrading.
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Apr 10, 201265Transistor Rhythm offers the proverbial mixed bag.