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Jul 8, 201310 tracks of soul-bearing introspection swathed in layers of rich reverb, icy chill and ephemeral echoes of 30 years of synth pop.
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Jul 11, 2013The good news is that it seems to have refired his creative urges: the songs have an ethereal sense of unease.
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Jul 18, 2013The lack of bang, where a band like The Whip for instance might do a good job with a similar collection of tracks, is well and truly compensated by its overall arc and atmosphere, its leisurely strides into a lazer-filled sunset proving climax enough without gimmicky drops and pandering.
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Jul 8, 2013In its own subtle way the album delivers on the promise and intentions of Turning the Mind.
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UncutJul 10, 2013It's seductive enough, but rather short on bravery. [Aug 2013, p.72]
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Jul 10, 2013To put not too fine a point on it, Vicissitude is bland.
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Jul 9, 2013As it stands, Vicissitude is the very dictionary definition of mostly fat, and not enough lean meat that you can really sink your teeth into.
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Jul 8, 2013Vicissitude is such a wispy, bloodless record that it’s hard to find anything to recommend about it.
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Jul 8, 2013The nods to Spiritualized and My Bloody Valentine are still there, but the world has moved on since then, and unfortunately, it feels like Maps is still stuck in 2007.
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Jul 11, 2013At every turn, the album serves only to reinforce the fact that Chapman isn't only firmly, almost blindly stuck in the previous decade, but that his music's long-overdue expiration date is the least of its problems.