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Bracken makes thoughtful, reflective music, like Brian Eno, or even fellow anticon labelmates Alias or cLOUDDEAD.
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Alternative PressThe need for The Need is debatable, but it's a nice addition to Anticon's growing catalog of successful experiments. [Mar 2007, p.144]
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If Chris Adams descended into his cozy lair to try his hand at glitch and rid his fingers of Hood’s snoozy bleating, he found a safe median, driving his ideas years behind the curve, distinguishing himself from his previous band by tinier and tinier increments as the tracklist exhausts.
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FilterThis is a sprawling album of warmth, stuttering electronics and rural psychedelia. [#24, p.96]
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His band's former work may be referenced, but Adams' personal stamp is unmistakable.
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A slippery, engrossingly genreless take on the old theme of desolation in the city.
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With the impressive level of control, it’s understandable when it starts feeling like Adams is holding on a little too tightly.
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A generous musical vocabulary enables each song to speak with both a familiar voice and novel inflections.
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UncutStuttering breakbeats, looped effects and suffusive psychedelia. [Feb 2007, p.72]
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PatDMar 5, 2007One of the best records of the year