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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Considering the breadth of the collection, there are bound to be some missteps—the rhythmic drive of "Wide Open" and "W" feel particularly out of place, while some of the pair's piano work blurs together. Nonetheless, it's hard to complain about a release that puts these talented composers' collaborations all in one place.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 21, 2015
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Fascinating and vibrant, Texture Like Sun finds Deenmamode less concerned with his own life and times, focusing instead on the world around him.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 15, 2015
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Science Fiction Dancehall Classics is a treasure trove for newcomers as well as On-U completists (there's a generous number of previously unreleased tracks), and a fascinating piece of dance music genealogy.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 14, 2015
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Three bonus tracks included with the re-release are almost as good, though they stretch the album to a daunting 75 minutes. City Lake's main effect is to make you appreciate the charms of its successor all the more. Its main effect, but not its only one.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 14, 2015
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The mechanistic form and function can feel totally lifeless, but there's a layer of mourning beneath the gleaming metal.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 2, 2015
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Product is simply forward-thinking, flawlessly-produced electronic music that wants no more than to slap a grin on the dance floor.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 1, 2015
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- Posted Nov 23, 2015
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The forms are extraordinary and the surfaces dazzling, but it's unclear how to navigate through them. You're impressed but also confused, and you keep an eye out for the exit. Several tracks shine regardless.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 20, 2015
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Despite its shortcomings, Howl is a fine album for those interested in analog electronics and curious what can be done with them outside of a club environment.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 16, 2015
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GOD's interest in questionable styles and its elaborate backstory seem designed to keep things interesting after the giant step forward that was R Plus Seven.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 16, 2015
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Art Angels wipes the fog from her lens and lays out her vision, clear and uncompromising.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 13, 2015
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Shepherd's flawless Eglo catalogue had the power to coax his followers off the dance floor with him, and Elaenia's sophisticated sense of musical accomplishment ought to keep them there.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 10, 2015
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Under The Same Sky might not be the most original or ambitious album you will hear this year, but it's arresting, it moves quickly and it never looks back.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 4, 2015
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Much like switching on a 24-hour news channel, No No is engrossing for the first ten minutes or so. Then the parade of lurid images continues, and sure enough, they give you a headache.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 4, 2015
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What Burton nails on Communion is how to fold in sounds from all over--electronic music and the real world--to make powerful and terrifying music in 2015. If the club is a shelter from an oppressive and dangerous society, then Communion is what waits outside.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 4, 2015
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Baio's tunes are short and snappy, and at around 40 minutes long, The Names takes less time than reading most chapters of a DeLillo book.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 3, 2015
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Vibert's turned in a brazenly colourful, glitter-dusted and streamer-throwing affair, so have fun with it.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 3, 2015
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The result is an album split between brilliant and head-scratching moments, and it's all a lot take in at once. Anxiety dressed up Ashin's neuroses in glossy textures, while Age Of Transparency lets them writhe all over the floor. Like his live show, it's thrilling, confusing and uncomfortable in equal measure.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 2, 2015
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Making good on Quattlebaum's professed interest in radical queer politics, the music on C-ORE feels suitably radical, queer and non-conformist.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 26, 2015
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St Germain conjures up rich and atmospheric landscapes equal to Navarre's earlier work. They're different from where we last left him, but they still seem to find him right at home.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 21, 2015
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At almost 70 minutes, Where All Is Fled may take a few unnecessary detours across its 14 tracks, but it's ultimately Hauschildt's most cohesive work. Here, he's matched his well-established talents as a composer of cosmic ambient with a new depth of artistic direction.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 19, 2015
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Safe is an incongruous blend of calm and anxiety. It's also full of raw human emotion.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 13, 2015
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Without any contrast, his vibraphone seems to grin vacantly, as if pumped full of sedatives.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 12, 2015
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This is a record of great technical skill and imagination, and one that's also nonetheless soulful and sincere.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 7, 2015
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The music on µ20 is equally a view into that mind and its peculiar tastes. Though he rarely gets the level of recognition and respect as his good friend and one-time collaborator Aphex Twin, Paradinas is a visionary, an incredibly talented producer and a savvy curator.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 6, 2015
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They've become powerful songwriters since they focused on the craft in 2010, and Foam Island shows it off more than anything else.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 6, 2015
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Days Gone By focuses on the band's smoky, bedroom-ready style. It's only half the story, but it's still a pretty good one.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 5, 2015
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Even if Have You In My Wilderness is Holter's most accessible record to date, it's riddled with enough puzzles, lyrical twists and delicate refinement to remain intriguing listen after listen.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 2, 2015
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Caracal has the effect of a magician performing a trick twice in a row, rendering once clandestine, miraculous movements suddenly obvious, over-rehearsed and unnatural.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Sep 28, 2015
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The Curved Line is a pretty harmless, quirky listen, and enjoyable enough if you've got a bit of a sweet tooth.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Sep 24, 2015
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- Posted Sep 24, 2015
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- Posted Sep 21, 2015
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Some of the best moments on Discreet Desires occur when she's flexing these unexpected songwriting chops.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Sep 15, 2015
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Where a lot of modern Balearic music can sound cheesy and banal, Idjut Boys have a keen sense of melody and a fondness for unexpected left turns, which keeps their tracks tight and surprising.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Sep 9, 2015
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- Posted Sep 4, 2015
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An entire album of the stuff would likely be twee overkill, but Gonno's endearing quirks and lighthearted sensibilities are charming in small doses.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Sep 2, 2015
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This series has always been Kompakt’s annual attempt to try to shape mainstream house and techno in its own idiosyncratic vision. Once again, it has done so in style.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 27, 2015
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His architectures still have an unreal sheen, but they're convincing enough to get lost in.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 24, 2015
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Staring into a murky void, Thundercat has actually made his clearest music yet.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 24, 2015
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Whatever James puts his name to could and should never be expected to make conventional sense, so Orphaned Deejay Selek only falters when denying his own slippery logic.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 21, 2015
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Born In The Echoes follows the duo's formula of saving the more psychedelic tracks for the end.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 18, 2015
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There's the occasional hint of another, more vivid album.... Elsewhere they often seem all too separate, like combatants squaring off in a strange, airless room.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 14, 2015
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Each production here feels less like a 10-minute single than a condensed DJ set, and The Orb navigate these spaces with a fresh wind in their sails.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 14, 2015
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It's a total weirdo crossover success, and perhaps Bahdeni Nami's standout if club fodder is what you're after.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 12, 2015
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Blondes' new arrangement seems to working fine so far, and suggests that subsequent live shows will be pretty special, too.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 12, 2015
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Though his abilities with oddball party jams are unquestionable, Davis proves he can be equally compelling when he tones it down a notch.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 11, 2015
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Pattern Of Excel succeeds during those little moments that capture Bannon's way with mood and melody.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 10, 2015
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Sometimes Walker can have his cake and eat it, too, and on the best moments of Knockin' Boots, he does.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 7, 2015
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What does it feel like to be alive in a digital age, overloaded and confused, but excited, too? What perspectives are possible now? Piteous Gate is a captivating attempt at putting those feelings into sound.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 6, 2015
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In its best moments, Morning/Evening is perfectly paced. Less convincing is the Evening side's coda.... Even with these faults, though, Hebden has brought a refreshing addition to his discography.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jul 16, 2015
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LP might be Ren Schofield's shortest album as Container, but it's also the one that best captures the full elemental force of his music.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jul 15, 2015
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This is a minor work, but a minor work from a master of his art.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jul 13, 2015
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This is machine music for a machine-ruled future made by someone who truly loves machines.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jul 10, 2015
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This new LP is understated by comparison, with fewer jarring moments and more shifting grooves.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jul 8, 2015
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Portraits resonates at a level of button-pushing sentimentality, but Maribou State are such deft directors of their sound, and so melodically gifted, that they still create moments of magic.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jul 6, 2015
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- Posted Jul 2, 2015
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Starfire won't get stuck in your head for days, but you could spend weeks unpacking it and still never quite get to the bottom of it.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jul 1, 2015
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On Tundra, the duo's debut long-player for R&S, Lakker seem fully in their element. The ideas have room to breathe and consolidate themselves.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jun 26, 2015
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Since the beginning, DJ-Kicks has been about finding unique takes on this craft. Kozalla's 50th instalment more than lives up to this tradition.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jun 26, 2015
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Nozinja Lodge is joyous, colourful dance music from one of the electronic scene's most eccentric and promising personalities.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jun 23, 2015
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Walk Dance Talk Sing shows you can't have too much of a good thing.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jun 18, 2015
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When Lantern hits its high points, it ends up somewhere in the stratosphere. When it falters, it's mostly because it's too ambitious, either thematically, as with the overblown love songs, or technically, as with the roller-coaster sequencing that halts the momentum over and over.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jun 18, 2015
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The Shakes is worth hearing for the sonic detail alone. The best tracks have an inclusive, sweeping abandon that rivals the high points of Scale.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jun 16, 2015
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Ambiguities can make Olympic Mess's charms difficult to excavate, but it's well worth making the effort to do so.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jun 15, 2015
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The LP hops between ideas and experiments in the tradition of the rock music double-album, and even within individual songs things are rarely straightforward.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jun 15, 2015
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Stylistically, it's more of a grab-bag than ever before, occasionally tipping the scales from charming to bombastic.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jun 4, 2015
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- Posted Jun 3, 2015
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What we're left with is an uneven album that's rarely as profound or as meaningful as it tries to be.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jun 1, 2015
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- Posted May 21, 2015
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This is a short album that toggles around pretty familiar sounds without doing anything new with them. But in this final salvo, Walls have proven that they are a force.- Resident Advisor
- Posted May 20, 2015
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For all their strange angles and squeaky sonorities, these songs satisfy in the way that pop has always satisfied, no more and no less.- Resident Advisor
- Posted May 18, 2015
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Cunningham focuses primarily on selection for his hour-long jaunt through murky technoisms. All too often, though, technique and sequencing seem to have been banned from the booth.- Resident Advisor
- Posted May 15, 2015
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Runddans is an intriguing and sometimes fun experiment, but it's not quite a meeting of great musical minds.- Resident Advisor
- Posted May 11, 2015
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The album is a ultimately a disappointment, but it has its moments nonetheless.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Apr 30, 2015
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Very little of Trickfinger could be called surprising, but it isn't without its charms.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Apr 29, 2015
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Captain Of None places Schott's voice front-and-centre and folds in her long-burning love for dub and reggae rhythms, making for her most approachable and otherworldly record yet.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Apr 27, 2015
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An elegant, heartbroken album that wraps its dance floor influence in thick pop overtones.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Apr 27, 2015
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Where Ufabulum felt like a garish souvenir from the performance built around it, Damogen Furies is more substantial and self-contained.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Apr 23, 2015
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Where Bad Vibes had a dynamic range of feeling, Dark Red is melodramatic to the point of being alienating.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Apr 23, 2015
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Jlin has plenty to say, and she has a remarkably strong and distinctive voice with which to say it.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Apr 16, 2015
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- Posted Apr 14, 2015
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The gussied-up politeness that has followed Greene throughout his career is still an issue here, making the less adventurous material sound slightly anonymous. That's why the thick textures on "Folle" stand out so much, or why it's so exciting when Greene lets it all float away on "Lately." There are more than enough of these moments to make the record worthwhile.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Apr 13, 2015
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Instead of trying something new, he focuses on what he's good at, which makes Claustrophobia a lateral move rather than a step forward. It seems Rose is trying to recapture the brilliance of his peak-period work. In Claustrophobia's best moments, he does.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Apr 1, 2015
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Rather than an earth-shattering opus, Dream A Garden is a stepping stone to a new sound, one with enough promising moments to suggest it's only a matter of time before Latham gets there.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 27, 2015
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He may be trading more in the glow of nostalgia than the shock of the new, but he can still deliver the goods.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 25, 2015
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Excerpts feels like a series of glimpses into Gast's world, where past full-lengths have been an unbroken wander through it.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 17, 2015
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An album that finds Cantu-Ledesma orchestrating perhaps the most gorgeous ambience of his career so far.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 16, 2015
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Without its academic trappings, Projections starts to grate, with its middle-of-the-road niceness and mood of tepid celebration. With them, it's borderline offensive.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 16, 2015
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For all the dub diehards, Late Night Endless is a must-have. For the rest, it's a leisurely detour in the catalogues of two great artists who proved themselves a long time ago.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 11, 2015
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"Junkies" is the album's only weak moment. The others, while never delivering the thrills of "Six Figures" or "Solemn Days," slowly reveal a different kind of charm.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 11, 2015
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Coming from a producer who habitually finds new ways to dazzle, Pearson Sound is uncharacteristically average.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 11, 2015
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Modern Streets may lack ingenuity, but it works as a sincere and relatable portrayal of the artist's experience.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 10, 2015
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Over its 20 minutes, the EP pushes dance music through violent twists and turns until it becomes disorienting and startling.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 9, 2015
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Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but Fatima Al Qadiri, Nguzunguzu and J. Cush have delivered a surprisingly solid record with a global outlook and more than a few surprises surprises up its sleeve.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 5, 2015
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It's all meticulously crafted with a keen ear for mood and emotion, and yet Creatures has trouble moving beyond a pastiche of Castex's record collection.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 2, 2015
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If The Mainframe is a film, then it's a Michael Bay blockbuster: slick and engaging but totally adolescent in worldview, its plot tortuous, its characters flimsily drawn, all of it an excuse for a string of eye-popping action set-pieces.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Feb 26, 2015
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Body Pill is thoroughly understated throughout. It's an odd little album that only shows us part of the Anthony Naples puzzle, which is probably appropriate for an artist whose work seems to come in small and unusual bursts of inspiration.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Feb 20, 2015
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- Posted Feb 11, 2015
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James spends most of the EP in that exploratory mode, and though there's a certain pleasure in listening to an artist figure things out, a full 28 minutes feels like overkill. Regardless, it's comforting to know James isn't settling into a routine.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Feb 5, 2015
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Some tracks, like "Mouth Mantra," simply feel overcrowded. The Haxan Cloak, who mixed the album, struggles to find clarity in busier moments. But the story, visceral and tragic, transcends these imperfections in the telling.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jan 29, 2015
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