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Sep 13, 2016Their sound is now more stark and metronomic than ever before.
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Aug 26, 2016Factory Floor's aesthetic is rarely comforting, and yet their new music settles into itself as it revisits old habits.
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Aug 12, 2016Revisit older Factory Floor tracks like “A Wooden Box” or “(R E A L L O V E)” and there remains something tantalizing there--the way they morph back and forth between live band and broiling techno, a trompe l’oeil for the ear. On 25 25, they’ve shed this dimension, and the results can feel depthless and a little flat.
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MojoAug 4, 201625 25's monomaniacal quest for the ultimate groove occasionally leaves the listener behind. [Sep 2016, p.96]
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Aug 15, 2016What 25 25 is missing are those necessary bits of relief that were worked into their previous album.
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Aug 16, 201625 25 is too dated and monotonous in its aesthetic to captivate those on contemporary dancefloors or mainstage festival grounds—where today’s EDM thrives most profoundly—and its lack of modernity and failure to iterate on dormant genre conventions will leave the cutting-edge electro-savvy intelligentsia shrugging their shoulders.
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Sep 13, 2016Continually tedious and far too long for its own good, 25 25 is a almost hour-long endurance test that refuses to let itself out of the duo’s own heads.