Resident Advisor's Scores
- Music
For 1,108 reviews, this publication has graded:
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53% higher than the average critic
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6% same as the average critic
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41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.9 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: | Biokinetics [Reissue] | |
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Lowest review score: | Déjà -Vu |
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Positive: 962 out of 1108
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Mixed: 145 out of 1108
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Negative: 1 out of 1108
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R.I.P. is the most enveloping and fully developed of his cultivated soundworlds yet.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Apr 19, 2012
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The album certainly isn't a waste of time, but most disappointing is that it lacks an intensity and message.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Apr 17, 2012
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A surprisingly coherent record full of vignettes that feel alternately archival, ethnographic and as usual, flickering and ephemeral-glimpses of musicality that flutter away just when you get comfortable.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Apr 17, 2012
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Even though Brighter falls short, in this context it does illustrates that the indie WhoMadeWho infuse their dance with has more funk and attitude than most.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Apr 13, 2012
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There's no denying that Iradelphic is Clark's most accessible and friendly work in ages... Unfortunately, comfort is boring.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Apr 11, 2012
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With nothing more at their disposal than techno's characteristically sparing palette, Dozzy and Neel have built something so rich that it has the feeling of a feature presentation.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Apr 10, 2012
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Thirteen tracks of relatively barebones 808 funk can star to wear, and especially moving at such a (relatively) slow tempo Transistor feels a little bloated by its last third.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Apr 10, 2012
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Ekstasis is brimming with them though [moments that are avant-gard yet instantly accessible] -an album so coherently constructed that it's perhaps more notable for its instants, its moments and sequences, than its full tracks.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Apr 5, 2012
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The songs reunited on The Singles should be celebrated by anyone fascinated by the UK's long tradition of tuneful eccentrics.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 30, 2012
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For all its referential qualities, this is a record that is confident in its own distinct character.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 29, 2012
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It never fully sounds laid back, as if the producer is unwilling to let his sounds run as rampant or give into the funk quite like his Californian counterparts.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 27, 2012
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Van Hoen may be submerged in his own past, but the melancholic apprehension of the record is thoroughly universal.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 27, 2012
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- Posted Mar 27, 2012
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In the hands of artists as confident and unflinching as these three, the scope for discovery and growth becomes infinite. The darkest of gems.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 26, 2012
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Pretty Ugly takes the ugliest tropes of UK dance music and flips them inside out without losing what makes them so physically powerful in the first place.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 14, 2012
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It is the very overfamiliarity with those same [80's] tropes that makes TRST an ultimately unsurprising, par for the course listen.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 13, 2012
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Hive Mind, follows in the vein of "Ital's Theme" by focusing on warm, softly throbbing textural slides over insistent 4/4 rhythms to forge a kind of day-drifted vagabond music akin to the work of acts like Blondes or The Miracles Club.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 9, 2012
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Brimming with standalones ... but it sometimes feel[s] more like a collection of songs than a singularly-minded and cohesive album.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 8, 2012
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While Demdike fans will have heard a lot of this stuff by now, Sean Canty and Miles Whittaker are still better than just about anybody else in the way that they thread found sound, field recordings, library music and generated sounds and beats... one hell of a package.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 7, 2012
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The result is one of the most emotionally powerful synth albums in a time where they seem absolutely dime a dozen.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 7, 2012
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- Posted Feb 29, 2012
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Mouse On Mars now occasionally sounds like a hybrid of other artists rather than a unique entity.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Feb 29, 2012
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It's not about to break any new ground, but her attractively elegant mixture of dream pop, post-punk and luxurious atmospherics are a hard combination to resist.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Feb 29, 2012
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Pete Swanson isn't "going" anywhere but his own scorched-earth path. If you can withstand the heat, it's probably worth following him for a bit.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Feb 23, 2012
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They! Live is a lovely, highly listenable release, flowing effortlessly in a way that most house music albums can only hope for.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Feb 22, 2012
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Visions is marked by a number of characteristics that make up a broad swathe of forgettable, barely-there music-it sounds distant, cheaply produced, with songs that seem to flutter in and out of earshot rather than command attention-but it's executed with such personality, earnestness, and feeling that it feels so much louder and present than it really is.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Feb 17, 2012
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It's almost certainly the producer's most ambitious and most vital work since Untrue.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Feb 15, 2012
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Patience is one of Kirby's most consistent and stylistically severe albums in recent memory, mostly solo piano with the occasional vocal thrown in.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Feb 14, 2012
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It takes a lot of talent to make crate-digging sound so seamless, and even if the cracks show every once in a while, Planet High School is some of the best patchwork around.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Feb 14, 2012
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- Posted Feb 10, 2012
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Like the phantom motion you feel laying in bed after long hours in transit, Themes for an Imaginary Film is bound to stick with you, drawing you in deeper with each turn of the ignition.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Feb 8, 2012
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This new U&I long player is a welcomed return to form and Leila's most gripping work to date.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Feb 3, 2012
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FabricLive.61 showcases a producer similarly disinterested in genre orthodoxy. But he's doing it in a different way. The mix might have its roots in dubstep's swampier side but is now intertwined with gnarled techno and thorny breaks.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Feb 2, 2012
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rje had another ace up his sleeve: It's the Arps, a glistening modern disco EP that, at the risk of splitting hairs, is probably his finest yet.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Feb 1, 2012
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Equal parts rock, hip-hop and experimental, it's one of the most interesting records of the year thus far.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jan 27, 2012
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As strong as Dillon's songs are, the idea that there are some missed opportunities here can't help but nag at even its strongest moments.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jan 25, 2012
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For the most part, Vibert's approach to drum & bass still sounds unique, although there are some signs that this was produced in the '90s if you're looking for them.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jan 24, 2012
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Dear's latest, the four-track Headcage EP, finds the New Yorker continuing to explore what it might mean for him to be a pop star, even going so far as to bring in some outside help on the production end.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jan 18, 2012
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Magnificently re-mastered... an exemplary introduction to the duo.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jan 18, 2012
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Glimmer has enough to rope back in jilted Treny fans, but is steady-footed enough to find acolytes in drone and ambient communities as well.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jan 9, 2012
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An elegant and often bewitching entrant in the surfeit of night-weary synthscapes.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jan 3, 2012
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If there is one main flaw you could attach to Rapprocher, it's how Harper sticks so slavishly to the template laid out by her dance pop mentors.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 19, 2011
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It's a bit like an imagined hodgepodge view of the pristine tropics, like plastic palm trees, or drinking at a tiki bar in the middle of a snowstorm.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 14, 2011
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The reason that the DJ-Kicks series has remained relevant is that even at its so-called worst, it was still saying something about the overall state of electronic dance music. With Gold Panda's entry-despite its cleverness and state-of-the-art, diverse penchants-you're left with the impression the famous !K7 cycle has nothing more this time than a muted episode on its hands.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 13, 2011
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We Stay Together isn't a retread of Passed Me By, it's a continuation--but there are signs of life this time.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 9, 2011
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Tropics' debut album stands its ground as a promising start for an artist still figuring out exactly what he wants to say.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 5, 2011
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It is difficult to pick any more jewels off this dance floor diadem, making the most as it does of the long player context.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 5, 2011
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It's tricky to make music this mopey without sliding into shtick, but Holy Other pulls it off, balanced right on the brink of bathos.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 5, 2011
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As the dubstep/bass music continuum continues to splinter, recombine and reinvigorate itself ... Sepalcure seems to string all of these timbres and sub-sub-genres into a physically and emotionally bewitching take on post-everything dance music.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 30, 2011
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Patten is clearly willing to toy with his numerous ideas in lieu of easy hooks, and he concedes remarkably little here.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 30, 2011
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Stately though Dedication was, its serious mien and careful composition made it an introduction to Zomby that made his work seem less appealingly messy than it oftentimes is. This seven-song, 23-minute EP remedies that.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 30, 2011
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Even though we get Cox at his most nakedly audible on Parallax, however, it still feels like he's putting on a show, or imitating someone else.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 23, 2011
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While the record is certainly appreciable on purely musical terms--this is evocative, heart-tugging stuff--when knowledge of Kirby's intent lurks underneath the damaged acetate grooves, it becomes something else entirely: A poignant interrogation of memory loss and aging.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 22, 2011
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Schlungs does nothing to diminish Mungolian Jet Set's reputation as one of the most genuinely entertaining acts around.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 22, 2011
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Drone lives and dies by its inviolability and rigidity, but Lopatin throws that away in favor of something madder, weirder and altogether more enticing.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 22, 2011
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Much like its musical parent, Without You effortlessly inhales and exhales strands of musical influence past, present and future.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 22, 2011
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We can imagine these 32 tracks stretched out in three hours, and we can enjoy the way they squeeze into 76 minutes equally well.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 21, 2011
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Sadly, tracks like "Years Ago, Days Pass" or "Wired"--even with their intricate array of digital ornaments--remain badly in need of a proper tune; album closer "Nights," on the other hand, simply comes across as an anemic piano-led ballad: clocking in at seven minutes, it easily outstays its welcome and ends the album on a lukewarm note.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 21, 2011
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Despite its burnt album art and sandy surfaces, it's an album not of barbecues but of bottles of wine and quiet fires.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 15, 2011
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It's just Jamie Teasdale, an already accomplished producer, freely chasing his inspiration and coming out the other end with near genius in the process.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 14, 2011
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It's an unadventurous but pleasant effort from a talented artist who used to make everyone else look boring.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 8, 2011
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Perhaps most frustratingly, Scintilli doesn't have as much of a sense of continuum as the aforementioned trilogy--which is something that any good album should have.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 3, 2011
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Ghost People is the sound of Martyn cozying up to house music and mastering it, as close to focused and standing still as a restless artist like him could ever get.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 31, 2011
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Gonzalez outdoes himself on Hurry Up, We're Dreaming: a double album in tribute to the hefty documents of pre-digital, pre-iTunes yesteryear.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 28, 2011
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Audio, Video, Disco may not be as clever and as original as Justice think it is, but it definitely isn't as terrible as everyone else would want you to believe.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 27, 2011
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- Posted Oct 20, 2011
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ey clearly understand the value of the direct appeal, but on Coracle, the duo has rounded out the pre-manufactured pleasantries of their debut into headier, more substantive approaches to IDM, Chicago house, and nu-kosmische.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 20, 2011
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Glass Swords is a place where pleasure is the only constant: it doesn't matter that he's playing with self-consciously "cheesy" sounds or untouchable genres when the songs are this good.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 19, 2011
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The inherent structural flaws of any given remix album also plague TKOL RMX--a lack of consistency, flow or narrative.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 18, 2011
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- Posted Oct 17, 2011
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- Posted Oct 17, 2011
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As expected, the Norwich-based producer's first full-length culls together another mass of genres, this time with the fresh additions of footwork and UK funky flavours.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 12, 2011
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This sounds like a coherent album rather than a string of collaborations, with his creamy tones-and occasionally clichéd lyrics-providing a common identity throughout.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 12, 2011
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In Dust seems solely an accompaniment for alps and plains. Some space for the bedroom and lounge would have been nice too.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 12, 2011
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The album is quite possibly his most stirring and accomplished work to date.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 7, 2011
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- Posted Oct 6, 2011
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Not only is Looping State of Mind Willner's most diverse and satisfying statement to date, it's an album that establishes him as one of electronic music's more subtly lateral thinkers.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 5, 2011
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Bronsert and Szary rarely break the mould here but it's instead one of the most accessible and effortlessly enjoyable dance music albums of the year.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 5, 2011
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- Posted Oct 3, 2011
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The result, for its few flaws and its exhilarations, at the very least, sounds fantastic, production-wise; Grace finds the band melding tooth-ground guitar assaults; '80s throwback candy pop; fluttery house templates; dusty, almost Stax-worthy soul getaways and sample-laced electro throbs into an album willing to sacrifice sonic exactitude for a mélange of sounds, tempos and genre exercises that still feels very much of a singular-albeit kaleidoscopic-piece.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Sep 8, 2011
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- Posted Sep 6, 2011
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Rapping with Paul White combines a series of moods and ideas and ties them together with quirky skits and a varied palate of samples, all with the charm we've grown to expect from White.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 31, 2011
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See Birds, was a promising debut, but Wander / Wonder is the kind of record that can pull you into its emotional undertow from the minute those helium angels start singing.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 31, 2011
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Rather than crystal-clear crooning, we get choirs of Tesfayes swirling and winding around elaborate, meandering songs.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 31, 2011
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Aptly-titled, Fever Dream's gentle and imaginative hip-hop beats waft by leisurely, attractive on the surface but substantive and personal on the inside.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 30, 2011
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Sure, it's still quite messy, but in separating the vast array of influences and ideas present in Ras G's deceptively complex music, Earth lays it all out in a much more digestible manner.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 23, 2011
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It's another triumph for Friends of Friends, and it's a breakthrough for a young producer finally emerging with an individual and inventive style previously only hinted at.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 22, 2011
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Those of you disappointed in similar efforts this year by Hercules & Love Affair or, say, Jessica 6 will find many of their itches scratched here.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 19, 2011
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It's an album of gorgeous sounds and textures that prefer to lay in the dark and be discovered rather than assert themselves.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 10, 2011
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Ada's lengthy absence has allowed her the freedom to switch creative modes without any seemingly abrupt transitions. Meine Zarten Pfoten is bright and soft and tender, a kind of warm-bath comfort that should be perfect for those downy hours before you put the day behind you.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 2, 2011
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Feel It Break feels a bit front-loaded: its second half sags a bit with more ballad-oriented material, but closes on a strong note with "The Beast."- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 2, 2011
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They'll be fully outted soon--with an album this good, the backstory can't help but see the light of day--but even without the anonymity, Tiger & Woods will be plenty spicy.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 2, 2011
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Even the way it flows (abrupt and jerky) has the haphazard momentum of an unofficial mixtape. At the same time, Electronic Dream feels like a lovingly considered record, with the gaps between tracks blurred and bled like the fuzzy borders of a drug-induced dreamworld.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 2, 2011
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While, in a sense, Room(s) is by definition an amalgamation of most of the trends and ideas floating around in the electronic music sphere at the moment, it sounds like nothing else, and its execution is so cutthroat and streamlined that it's nearly flawless.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 2, 2011
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While that pop sense is here yet again on THEE PHYSICAL, the difference on this album is that it feels written, large empty structures playing host to actual songs.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 1, 2011
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It's hard to argue with the result anyway: Its slow build and aching vocals stand out as a purposeful moment of perfection on a record chock full of them.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 1, 2011
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SBTRKT isn't going to break down any barriers in the obsessively experimental world that it was birthed, but it's a thoroughly solid listen all the way through. Which is a lot more than his supposed peers could say about their debut albums.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 1, 2011
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The result could have been an album so mournful as to lose itself in self-serious introspection, but Dedication's brief track lengths mean the album is breezy in a manner unbefitting of its ostensibly grave subject matter.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 1, 2011
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While some of Black Up isn't a million miles from his former group's darker corners, it's not particularly like much else. It's all present tense, in a way too little is, and brash, bold, and weird about it. Per one of his more baffling lines: "up, or don't toss it at all."- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 1, 2011
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