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Oct 1, 2012His slight adjustments and increased restraint make this his most accessible and creative release yet.
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Sep 28, 2012Until the Quiet Comes further catapults Ellison into the cosmos and away from all things terrestrial. He's the king of his domain, and there is no runner-up.
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Sep 28, 2012No one's asking bigger questions of himself or more from himself in music than Flying Lotus is. These records are the only appropriate answers and Until The Quiet Comes is his most accomplished yet.
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Oct 11, 2012It's a masterpiece.
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Oct 5, 2012Although there aren't any obvious standout hits here, that's not what FlyLo intended to create. Instead, Until The Quiet Comes blends together into a lush electronic soundscape you can daydream to.
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Oct 3, 2012FlyLo's Until The Quiet Comes is an exercise in dense rhythmic layers and melodic dissonance.
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Oct 1, 2012Until The Quiet Comes is an album that is celebratory and desolate, dense and sparse, dark and colourful--a trippy, fantastical ride that only he could create a path for.
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Sep 28, 2012He is, however, a radiant example of an artist with the ability at his fingertips to close the schism between the true avant-garde and the leftfield mainstream, and in this respect Until the Quiet Comes is the record to date we'll most likely crown his masterpiece.
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Sep 28, 2012It's not as gratifyingly raw as 1983 or as paradigm-shifting as Los Angeles or as self-important as Cosmogramma, but it's more expansive and refined taken in one sitting.
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Oct 2, 2012This is one of the most rewarding and beautiful albums of the year.
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Oct 3, 2012For an album that, at times, is beautiful, it doesn't hypnotise you, it doesn't entrance you, and even its best moments fail to stay in your head.
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Oct 4, 2012Steven Ellison (aka Flying Lotus) manages to ensnare 18 night visions on his latest psych-bass masterwork, Until the Quiet Comes.
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Oct 5, 2012With points rewarded for originality and innovation the composer's greatest strengths are also his faults, as this effort lacks cohesion and sensible sequencing making for an exercise in patience that only biased fans would process as a sign of genius.
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MagnetOct 10, 2012Languid and sometimes lagging, [a] sensual 47-minute set. [No. 92, p.52]
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MojoOct 22, 2012Quite literally, a dream album. [Nov 2012, p.88]
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Sep 28, 2012Until The Quiet Comes is at once iridescent and ambiguous, luminous and impenetrable: an elegantly conceived and executed album which may well come to be seen as Flying Lotus' finest work to date.
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Oct 1, 2012Ultimately, this album is the sound of the future.
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Oct 11, 2012On this trippier, more scattered collection, it emerges in the looming calm, the open moments that peek through pneumatic melodies, beatific, druggy vocals and that throbbing, omnipresent kick.
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Oct 5, 2012Fly Lo manages to create an unusually sophiticated and well-produced album with mostly a laptop.
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Oct 1, 2012The surface is a gorgeous invitation to return and see if you can figure out what it all means.
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Oct 3, 2012The more you listen to Until the Quiet Comes, the more you get the sense that you're only scratching the surface of how much is really going on with it. It's a tribute to what FlyLo has accomplished here that no matter how and how much you enjoy it now, Until the Quiet Comes only promises to keep on revealing more and more of itself.
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Q MagazineOct 22, 2012Ellison's reliably single-minded approach will appease seasoned Flying Lotus followers, but Until The Quiet Comes might just attract new followers. [Nov 2012, p.95]
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Oct 23, 2012Until The Quiet Comes is another excellent album by one of the most interesting producers out there.
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Oct 10, 2012Pleasant is the word. But not simple. Quiet has just as many corners worth peeking down.
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Oct 5, 2012It all adds up to something so captivating that vocal guests like Erykah Badu ("See Thru to U") can get a little lost.
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Oct 3, 2012Fully formed songs suggest themselves, but too often prematurely dissolve, with vagaries always favored over the tangible.
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Oct 2, 2012After multiple listens, the album reveals itself to be as nuanced, as subtle, and a lot more digestible than its predecessor, a sidestep into sonic territory that's no less admirable for its comparative somnolence.
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Oct 3, 2012Ellison excels everywhere else, keeping the beats brisk and the instrumentation organic and lively.
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Oct 30, 2012The album's aesthetic is elastic and permeable, and yet strong enough to hold its shape.
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Oct 10, 2012It's flawed, but unlike the vast majority of Ellison's current contemporaries, its flaws and contradictions remain as intriguing as its positive points, and lend themselves to repeat listens.
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UncutSep 28, 2012It is often reminiscent of auntie's work, but with a solid beat underpinning. [Nov 2012, p.73]
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Oct 2, 2012Every track and sound feels new and experimental; much of Until the Quiet is so wonderfully weird, there's no way for it to be boring.
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Oct 1, 2012It would be a stretch to call Until the Quiet Comes' disjointed tracklist and middling retreads the low point of Ellison's discography, but suffice it to say that the LA cornerstone has produced far more challenging and consistent records than this.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 81 out of 87
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Mixed: 2 out of 87
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Negative: 4 out of 87
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