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79

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 17 Ratings

  • Summary: The first solo release in five years for the electronic producer features guest appearances from Beans, Bibio, Thom Yorke, Thom Yorke.
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Beautiful People
I'll smile careful Beautiful people You know you're there I'll smile careful I can't go back To know you're there I'll smile careful 'Till the love... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. May 16, 2016
    80
    Twenty-five years into his undaunted career, he has created an album that brings him proudly from behind the curtain and into the foreground for all to appreciate.
  2. May 13, 2016
    80
    Under The Sun is Mark Pritchard’s most consistent piece of work in some time, one that is beautifully conceived and produced with restraint and an overall vision that, most of the time, only an artist of considerable experience can muster.
  3. Uncut
    May 4, 2016
    80
    This tasteful mix of analogue keys and distorted drum machines is precisely what we've come to expect from Pritchard. It's when he wanders off-piste with Bibio, Thom Yorke and Linda Perhacs that the record comes alive, and these instrumental tracks then play a vital supporting role. [Jun 2016, p.80]
  4. May 13, 2016
    80
    For Beans' nightmarish spoken narrative, Pritchard makes like a member of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop with intensifying patterns of organ filigrees and electronics that blip and swarm.
  5. May 13, 2016
    76
    Deeply atmospheric and richly impressionistic, Under the Sun is an easy album to disappear into.
  6. May 24, 2016
    72
    Under The Sun isn't the major departure that it seems on the surface, but rather a pleasant detour through mythical, imagined landscapes.
  7. Q Magazine
    May 4, 2016
    60
    It's an album that will send you to sleep, and to dreams of another dimension. [Jul 2016, p.114]

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