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- Summary: The fifth full-length studio release for the Iceland-based Australian producer was influenced by his time in the eastern Congo.
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- Record Label: Mute
- Genre(s): Electronic, Avant-Garde, Pop/Rock, Experimental Electronic, Noise
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Positive: 20 out of 20
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Mixed: 0 out of 20
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Negative: 0 out of 20
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Jul 22, 2014There’s nothing knee-jerk about it; just the inexorable sounds of ideas beautiful and terrible unfurling. It’s a careful, masterful record.
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May 27, 2014A U R O R A is dark, dreadful, and dramatic; it is also a masterpiece.
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Jun 11, 2014A brutal yet glorious release that doubles up as an unbending overture to fervour and force.
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May 20, 2014A U R O R A is both testing of boundaries and transcendental of beauty.
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May 29, 2014If his aim was to give musical form to the eastern DRC’s “unnerving beauty and unflinching horror”, then A U R O R A is a dazzling success.
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May 23, 2014There can be beauty in decay, growth from devastation, and A U R O R A helps open your eyes to that perspective.
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UncutMay 20, 2014It's hard-going at times, but "Nolan" and "Soda Fide" are oddly stirring. [Jun 2014, p.78]
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Positive: 1 out of 3
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Mixed: 2 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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May 27, 2014
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Dec 7, 2014
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