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Sep 11, 2013You just don’t get a sense of the depth and variety of the history Zomby is trying to encapsulate. Also, much of With Love‘s second half is made up of loping, rather dull dub and dubstep.
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Jul 11, 2013While With Love is an ambitious and entertainingly composed undertaking, offering glimpses into Zomby’s varied inspirations, it can still be frustratingly piecemeal and somewhat self-indulgent.
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UncutJul 10, 2013The execution is consistently weak. [Aug 2013, p.79]
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MojoJul 10, 2013With Love's blackout material is thinly stretched, allowing light to shine in on a skeletal basement stock of dubstep sketches and flat house beats that repeatedly loop out to abrupt endings, halting Zomby's greater narrative ambitions. [Aug 2013, p.92]
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Jun 21, 2013With Love is by no means a terrible album, but the bar that Dedication set was in no way reached. It’s worth giving a listen, but be prepared to edit it into a condensed and sensical format.
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Jun 19, 2013Aside from its sheer heft, though, it's hard to imagine it converting anyone who doesn't already care.
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Jun 18, 2013With Love’s desire to obscure any traces of the artistic hand that made it is both its most compelling trait and what ultimately prevents it from ascending to the aesthetic nirvana it imagines.
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Jun 17, 2013What could be mistaken for something approaching a masterpiece reveals itself as far more hollow.