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Under The RadarJul 9, 2012While a number of tracks offer a solid melodic thread to grasp,m wade deep enough into Ufabulum and you'll find the sweetness a trap. [Jun 2012, p.160]
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Jul 2, 2012There's something about how these tracks activate complicated astrophysical sequences dense with mathematical run-off that makes them have hi-speed, cyber-virtual effervescence.
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Jun 19, 2012At 50 minutes, Ufabulum is a little exhausting and monotonous to be declared a masterpiece. But chunks of it are quite brilliant and exciting, so it's better to take it exactly as it is: a Squarepusher record, through and through.
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Jun 4, 2012Ufabulum easily stands as his strongest and most consistent work since Go Plastic.
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MagnetMay 30, 2012You wonder if he's forgotten how to have, you know, fun. Approach with caution. [No.87 p.61]
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May 29, 2012It's still dance music, for those who can dance through a barrage.
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May 24, 2012At its best it is an almost physical experience. The two fundamental components (swelling synths and explosive rhythms) in the first case exemplify heart and soul and in the latter explode in every direction at once – the best tracks do both simultaneously.
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May 23, 2012This may not be the most challenging or experimental Squarepusher album, but it feels like a step forward for an IDM artist who's been at it for nearly two decades.
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May 23, 2012It's something that can be quite brilliant: to paraphrase Special Agent Dale Cooper--Squarepusher's path is a strange and difficult one.
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May 18, 2012Moments of Ufabulum, particularly the middle stretch, are all but impossible for me to remember after a dozen plays.
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May 17, 2012This is Squarepusher with the best equipment money can buy, pumping his tracks mercilessly until they're all surface and no substance.
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May 17, 2012Ufabulum won't blow the mind of anyone familiar with his work, but it's a decent entry point for new fans and a very satisfying collection of light-hearted left-field dance music.
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May 16, 2012Ufabulum shows Squarepusher pushing forward some of his leanest, most unfurled compositions to date.
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May 15, 2012Ufabulum abandons Squarepusher's usual 1 : 1 ratio of electronic : jazz in favor of 1 : 1, electronic : space adventure.
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May 15, 2012Ufabulum is perhaps not a terrible album in any respect, but at the same time it simply is an incredibly boring one.
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May 14, 2012Whilst undoubtedly, and commendably, experimental, very few tracks on Ufabulum hit their mark.
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UncutMay 10, 2012It's hard to dispute that Ufabulum find him in the form of his life. [Jun 2012, p.84]
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Alternative PressMay 10, 2012Fan waiting for the true follow-up to 2001's Go Plastic may now warm their souls by the heat of his hard drive. [Jun 2012, p.84]
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May 10, 2012Ufabulum rises out of the muddle of curious decisions on the several albums before it, offering a true-to-form Squarepusher experience more diverse and ornate than almost any before it.
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May 10, 2012A few surprisingly wishy-washy string-synths aside, it is, as always, hugely impressive but disappointingly cold and forbidding.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 9
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Mixed: 1 out of 9
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Negative: 0 out of 9
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