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- Record Label: Rough Trade
- Release Date: Jun 23, 2017
- Summary: The first release of Rough Trade Shops' Behind the Counter series features a mix compilation curated by Max Richter.
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- Record Label: Rough Trade
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Aug 17, 2017Max Richter’s only motive here is beauty, drawn from all corners of his musical interests, which are many and varied. The result is a journey that takes one from Renaissance choral polyphony to the inventive precocity of teen duo Let’s Eat Grandma, via Bach and Handel, minimalism, post-rock and electronica, with nary a misstep in sound, selection or sequence. ... A rare treat.
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Aug 17, 2017What a world of pleasure will open up to any adventurous young music fan taking a punt on this one though, and then proceeding to connect the dots.
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Q MagazineAug 18, 2017This lush 36-track comp traces Richter's influences,meandering from vintage to post-rock to contemporary and is twinkling, Sunday-morning music in excelsis. [Aug 2017, p.115]
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UncutAug 17, 2017Richter's own work sits as comfortably alongside these as Schubert and Rachmaninov, and there are further contributions from Low and Rachels, as well as Bach, and, inevitably, Steve Reich. [Oct 2017, p.52]