Without Your Love
by oOoOO
Metascore
69

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
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  1. AllMusic
    Jul 3, 2013
    80
    An impressive first full-length from an artist equally adept at intricate productions and affecting songwriting, Without Your Love brings all of Greenspan's talents together in a satisfying whole.
  2. Consequence
    Jun 26, 2013
    70
    While oOoOO doesn’t display the sheer discomfiting power of a Haxan Cloak, the emotive abilities of a Balam Acab, or the rhythmic intensity of an Evian Christ, Without Your Love pulls from all of them and leaves with a solid, worthwhile listen.
  3. DIY Magazine
    Jun 24, 2013
    70
    You can be left feeling drained and exhausted after listening. What is clear, though, that if you give yourself over to it it is incredibly rewarding.
  5. Fact Magazine (UK)
    Jul 18, 2013
    80
    Witchhouse appears unable to develop far beyond its basic origins, but Dexter instead hones, and in the process has produced something of a genre zenith--making slow-moving, essentially eventless music persistently compelling. No mean feat.
  6. Filter
    Jul 30, 2013
    72
    After two impressive EPs for Tri Angle, his debut Without Your Love continues to thrive on subterranean nighttime pleasures.
  7. musicOMH.com
    Jun 24, 2013
    80
    In Without Your Love he shows that he’s evolved from sinister experimentalist to a creator of powerful and highly original songs.
  8. New Musical Express (NME)
    Jun 24, 2013
    40
    Ultimately it feels short on substance, with the sort of atmosphere that can drain through your fingers.
  9. Pitchfork
    Jul 9, 2013
    67
    Without Your Love ends up becoming a loose survey of Dexter's work instead the Nihjgt Feelings statement he intended it to be.
  10. The Line of Best Fit
    Jun 24, 2013
    75
    While there are certainly times on Without Your Love where Greenspan’s over-application of eerie temperaments and lofty layers of sampling can start to drag--the found sound, musique concrète of ‘Misunderstood’ or ‘Crossed Wires’’ uninteresting non-sequitur coming immediately to mind--these rarely detract from what is, at its core, a fascinating, contemplative and forward-thinking collection.
  11. XLR8r
    Jun 28, 2013
    60
    More often than not, those organic sounds [dusty record pops, nocturnal nature recordings, tape hiss, distant car radios, bleeping busy signals, and street noise] feel like the music's most relatable characteristics, providing moments of unpredictability and liveliness to an album which paints almost exclusively with monochrome hues.

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7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 6 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Derezzination
    Jul 4, 2013
    8
    The album is dark. So dark that the album packaging itself reflects this. The front and back covers are black with grey writing that makes itThe album is dark. So dark that the album packaging itself reflects this. The front and back covers are black with grey writing that makes it hard to see, and if you squint at the front cover, then you can make out trees; the album is a thick fog concealing it's centre. The album feels very discreet though, because of this fog, for it is reflected in the music.

    The ambient sounds of children and birds, simple sounds that will encounter in life become haunting in the production on the songs within Without Your Love. oOoOO's previous work has been dark on his previous E.P's, but on this full-length, he really captures a certain aspect of beauty within the music and it feels very calming at points, especially at the end of "Sirens" and the last song "Across a Sea".

    This chilling sounds infects "Stay Here" but spreads itself out over the rest of the album, in a way that makes the songs feel similar, but you know that they are different songs. This is a bit troublesome because on the one hand I'm thinking, "Hold on, haven't I just heard this?" contrasted with "This album actually really well together because of this." It has flow. The desolate synths create a sense of loneliness and the deep bass creates a party where there is no light, just people dancing blindly.

    I like the vocal cuttings on "3:51 am", and I wish there was more on the album, but we do get some very eerie reversed vocals on "Crossed Wires" which work very well.

    The "Witch House" micro-genre or whatever people call it seems to, with this album, be dying. This album really sees to kill it off in the best way possible. I feel that this album is the start of what is to come out of the ashes of "Witch House", and I will be interested to see what happens with Dark Electronic music. It has the gloom, and it has the depressive oppressive sound that you can crave for. It's not in your face, but it is brilliant subtlety. Your friend won't, on first listen, or even on a passing listen be blown away, but he will be haunted by it, he will fall into it's awe. You won't to hand this to a friend and say, "You know what, try this."    … Full Review »
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