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- Summary: The third full-length release from indie electronic artist James Chapman was self-recorded.
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- Record Label: Mute
- Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Electronic, Electro
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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 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 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.
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