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Jun 20, 2014For those that do connect with the concept of this album as a whole and allow themselves to become immersed in Abbott’s analogue world, Wysing is as beguiling and intriguing as any record released this year.
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MojoJul 24, 2014Despite its experimental provenance, Wysing Forest is a cohesive, multi-layered collection. [Jul 2014, p.87]
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Jun 27, 2014[Amphis (Reprise) is] a quiet, almost reverent close to an album that further refines the disorienting beauty we've come to expect from Luke Abbott.
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Jun 23, 2014Currently, there are few notable British producers creating such brilliantly odd pieces of music as this.
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Jun 26, 2014It is an album which requires patience, which, once granted provides ever increasing rewards.
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UncutJun 20, 2014This is deluxe, bespoke, artisan electronica, only slightly marred by its high seriousness and lack of mischief. [Jul 2014, p.67]
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Jul 1, 2014A record too tart for beauty and too well reared for intractability.
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Jul 1, 2014There’s densely polyrhythmic music of texture and tone, frequently pierced with fragments of melody and hymnal chords emerging like shafts of sunlight through the trees, rewarding listeners willing to concentrate with moments of cerebral rapture.
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Jun 30, 2014The album’s periods of gestation and decomposition so outweigh its moment of flowering that a full listen is much more a chore than a pleasure.
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Jun 27, 2014Playful and melodic, Clash suggests that you take this on a Norfolk country ramble ASAP.
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Jun 23, 2014The rest of Wysing Forest rewards patient exploration, but nothing else quite matches Amphis for effect.
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Q MagazineJun 20, 2014This is a deeply trippy record. [Jul 2014, p.100]
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Jun 20, 2014Wysing Forest has a time and a place but unfortunately falls short of the mark that was set by Abbott's previous memorable output and the work of his peers.