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Dec 12, 2016Although it's not without some dazzling moments, this is the Zomby album with the lowest quantity of thrills.
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Sep 13, 2016Zomby’s excellent recent single with grime touchstone Wiley obviously had an influence on the direction, peppering the collection’s R’n’B cut-ups and dubstep-powered techno. Some pieces here, as on previous selections, are miniatures, or riddles filled with strange edits.
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Q MagazineSep 6, 2016Ultra is one for the hardcore fans. [Oct 2016, p.113]
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Sep 2, 2016As to be expected in this setting, the collaborations are occasionally guilty of overindulgence.
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Sep 1, 2016Freeze and Yeti are not without invention, but sound like they’re covering familiar sonic territory--and this time without intending to.
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Sep 1, 2016There’s still a fair amount of self indulgence, and the rare occasion on which you wish he’d stuck to the old habit of micro length tracks (‘HER’ being one such example), but on the whole it’s a well selected body of work.
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Sep 1, 2016On Ultra, it simply feels as though something is missing, and overall, makes more sense as an appetizer than the entrée.
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Sep 1, 2016Zomby changes style a frustrating amount, and all of it crawls along at a painstaking speed. He's gone for something different here, which is commendable, but the end product, sadly, comes off more pretentious than deep.
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Sep 6, 2016With Ultra, Zomby might have finally removed any remaining warmth from his sound: the album is cold to the point of inaccessibility.