• Record Label: Warp
  • Release Date: Jan 27, 2004
Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 18
  2. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. Towards the end, Herren's love of the glitch tentatively tries to reassert itself, but poetry and seductiveness manage to pacify it for the duration.
  2. Filter
    82
    An album awash in evocative warmth. [#9, p.111]
  3. 70
    Here their ambient electro is enhanced with a melange of influences that include soul, jazz and - a real winner this - Brazilian psychedelia.
  4. Mojo
    80
    A better advert for time-share life it's hard to imagine. [Feb 2004, p.102]
  5. Apropa't has a tendency at first to gently wash over you, striking no particular chord. But as you pay closer attention to the music, the melodic wash of it all becomes one of its addictive qualities.
  6. Side projects rarely eclipse their protagonists’ main works, but Apropa’t is one radical departure that finds the players perfectly aligning themselves to each other so convincingly that it’s hard to imagine Herren looking back again.
  7. This may be Herren's least accessible project to date.
  8. Apropa't pulses with sensual rhythms, lush harmonies, and ethereal forms that weave together to create a truly amazing aural experience.
  9. Q Magazine
    70
    So intimate and sad you can almost see the candles flickering. [Mar 2004, p.110]
  10. Apropa’t’s biggest flaw could be the use of Eva Puyuelo Muns’ vocals. Perhaps I’m accustomed primarily to Herren’s music as instrumental, but the use of Eva feels painfully forced at times.
  11. The Wire
    90
    There is no fake authenticity in this musical exploration, and Herren's musical palette is impressively wide ranging. [#241, p.63]
  12. While it may be the most unfamiliar work of Herren’s discography, it’s still one of the year’s first great albums.
  13. Uncut
    80
    As good a record, in fact, as anything this gifted polymath has ever released. [Feb 2004, p.82]

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