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- Summary: The first new solo full-length studio release in five years for the British electronic artist features vintage analogue equipment.
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- Record Label: Warp
- Genre(s): Electronic, Electronica, Pop/Rock, IDM, Jungle/Drum'n'Bass, Experimental Jungle, Drill'n'bass
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Positive: 12 out of 15
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Mixed: 3 out of 15
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Negative: 0 out of 15
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Feb 13, 2020Your response to Be Up A Hello will depend on your tolerance for Squarepusher’s virtuosic onslaughts. It can be as exhausting as it’s exhilarating. If there’s a sameness to the BPM readings of the up-tempo tracks a deeper listen reveals the layers that are buried beneath the frenzy and show Squarepusher has lost none of his edge.
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Jan 29, 2020After several records of heady composition and high-concept music, Be Up a Hello is refreshingly direct. Without simply revisiting a bygone golden era, Jenkinson reconsiders some of his old ways, taking some of his more familiar ideas to new, strange places. As always.
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Jan 28, 2020On the whole, the album is excellent. It’s a return to what Squarepusher is known most prominently for but his style has developed since the '90s.
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Feb 4, 2020Be Up a Hello is Jenkinson’s strongest album for a decade and is easily up there with his best work.
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Mar 25, 2020Be Up a Hello can be a lot to take in at times, a rambunctious and restless effort from a man comfortable in his ability to make the dancefloor obsolete. But there’s more here than simply speed and density – there are strange currents working their way through the songs, hints are something deeper and more relatable than its superficial excess might suggest.
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The WireFeb 5, 2020The nine tracks here compact his characteristic baroque late jungle excesses into compact, juddering frames. While they still rarely swing, their frenetic motion carries bent and warping keys, rolling breakbeats and maddened blarps of synth towards a clear endpoint. [Feb 2020, p.58]
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MojoJan 28, 2020As restless and fidgety as ever. [Feb 2020, p.91]
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Positive: 3 out of 5
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Mixed: 2 out of 5
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Negative: 0 out of 5
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Feb 1, 2020Listened to oberlove and hitsonu.. probably more suited to listeners under 15.. high energy but too manic for my ears
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