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Metascore
72

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  • Summary: The second release for the British producer was recorded in part live over a six week period.
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  1. Positive: 7 out of 13
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  1. 85
    For 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.
  2. Jun 27, 2014
    80
    [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.
  3. Mojo
    Jul 24, 2014
    80
    Despite its experimental provenance, Wysing Forest is a cohesive, multi-layered collection. [Jul 2014, p.87]
  4. Jul 1, 2014
    67
    A record too tart for beauty and too well reared for intractability.
  5. Jun 20, 2014
    60
    Wysing 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.
  6. Jun 30, 2014
    60
    The 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.
  7. Jul 1, 2014
    60
    There’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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