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May 14, 2013You’ll Be Safe Forever is a wormhole backward in time. It’s also a timeless reminder of how valuable both Mark Van Hoen and WFMU are to the contemporary music landscape.
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May 14, 2013You'll Be Safe Forever proceeds in this indeterminate fashion, with Locust maintaining a razor's-edge balance between comforting and disruptive sounds.
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Under The RadarMay 14, 2013The result is, yes, another Locust album: ghostly and immersive headphone fodder that offers the option to lie back and tune out, or tune in and dig deep. [Mar-Apr 2013, p.100]
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May 14, 2013The more physical moments are nearly outshone by a set of beat-less ambient pieces that amount to some of Locust's most riveting work.
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May 14, 2013From a purely musical perspective, You’ll Be Safe Forever remains a case of unfulfilled hope: an album that promises a great deal but attenuates halfway, eventually leading the listener down a path that’s disappointingly safe and familiar.
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May 30, 2013It is not good and and it is not bad. Most of it is just present and accounted for.