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Universal acclaim - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
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  1. The Wire
    Jul 26, 2018
    80
    Gat is a gnarly and thoroughly exciting guitarist, and somehow Universalists is aberrantly gorgeous and totally fried. [Aug 2018, p.68]
  2. Uncut
    May 25, 2018
    90
    On paper this should be a mess; on record it's a thrillingly chaotic sonic voyage. [Jun 2018, p.27]
  3. May 25, 2018
    80
    That’s the beauty of Universalists: there’s no use trying to pin it down. What’s more, doing so discredits its core thesis: music is music, plain and simple. Gat manages to capture the ecstasy of his live performance, while expanding his production and experimental practice to a global, and—dare I say—universal palette.
  4. May 25, 2018
    70
    While challenging, the album seems to symbolize a struggle to achieve balance and harmony, and the results are frequently exciting.
  5. May 25, 2018
    70
    This isn't a great album, but it's a visionary one, and rock would be in a healthier creative state if there were more records like it.
  6. May 25, 2018
    80
    Universalists is an extension and expansion of his solo debut, an evolution as simultaneously radical and just-right as any of the changes he’s known for improvising live.

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