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- Summary: The two-track release from experimental artist was a tribute to David Bowie.
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- Record Label: Temporary Residence
- Genre(s): Electronic, Avant-Garde, Pop/Rock
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Positive: 14 out of 14
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Feb 21, 2017It's a piece that Basinski apparently revisited and refined throughout 2016, a year made monumental by its cultural losses--and it's one of his very best.
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Jan 17, 2017William Basinski has created yet another outstanding work of art with A Shadow in Time, an audio sculpture of serenity and bliss to begin 2017 and put what was a saddening year for music to bed.
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MagnetFeb 14, 2017Basinski has proven remarkably capable at existing far outside of his own legacy, his uncanny ability to wring entire worlds from his famously deep tape archives proving more remarkable with each subsequent release. A Shadow In Time is no exception. [No. 139, p.53]
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Jan 18, 2017Even without knowing anything about Basinski himself or the climate in which he’s created his work, the listener herself would still be able to create their own world around it, such is the power of his music.
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Jan 23, 2017Its [The second track's] eerily distorted saxophone, a nod to Low, takes six minutes to surface, but then takes centre stage, a mournful motif subtly evolving over the next quarter of an hour. The multilayered title track, meanwhile, is a less immediate drone, but proves hypnotic well within its 17-minute timeframe.
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UncutJan 20, 2017With pleasing inevitability, A Shadow In Time does not disappoint. [Mar 2017, p.25]
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Jan 19, 2017As ever, Basinski is a master at suspending time, and the album seems to flow by faster than the clock indicates. When it does end, you wonder if you've been taken somewhere, or if you've been changed in some way. The only key to answering these questions is to dive back in.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Oct 20, 2021
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