User ratings in Music are temporarily disabled. More info
- Summary: The second album for duo of Andrew Phillips and Marcus O'Dair was inspired by places in United Kingdom and features a guest appearance by Robert Wyatt.
- Record Label: Ninja Tune
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
- More Details and Credits »
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 5 out of 7
-
Mixed: 2 out of 7
-
Negative: 0 out of 7
-
MojoJul 19, 2012Ethereal snatches of long-lost voices from old 78s, stentorian tones of TS Eliot and--on Richardson Road--Robert Wyatt adds plenty to this warm-hearted electronica. [Aug 2012, p.87]
-
Jul 19, 2012Grasscut push the electropop envelope in intriguing new directions with Unearth, its songs inspired by alliances of people, poetry and places.
-
Jul 25, 2012Unearth boasts enough charms on its own, offering up ten enigmatic, audio time capsules that strike a winning, oddball balance between the cool, Krautrock sheen of Kraftwerk, the naturalistic, glitch-filled hum of The Books, and the melodious pop stylings of early Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark.
-
Jul 19, 2012The British duo's second full-length in as many years mashes ghostly electro-pop tendencies with live instrumentation, empathetic orchestration, and tape-machine snippets, creating a world that is both compulsively listenable and eerily foreign.
-
Aug 17, 2012Grandiose, theatrical and picturesque, it's not to say the album isn't beautiful, but comes off as somewhat contrived.
-
Jul 19, 2012the samples-led, organic electronica here may produce intriguing textures--and Phillips' background as a soundtrack composer is never in doubt--but it is hard work to find anything approaching coherence here.
-
Q MagazineJul 26, 2012Completely beguiling. [Aug 2012, p.98]
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 0 out of
-
Mixed: 0 out of
-
Negative: 0 out of