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May 4, 2011At times, the album draws more from drum and bass than from UK funky or any other bass music du jour.
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Apr 26, 2011In spite of its sprawling palette, Black Sun is tight and compact, an album rather than simply a showcase.
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Q MagazineMay 18, 2011His second album evokes blade Runner's stylish futurism, populating it with Spaceape's paranoid poetry and drowning clean lines in tape crackle. [May 2011, p.119]
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UncutMay 13, 2011Black Sun is subdued and ruminative: snaking around dancehall, grime, hip hop, but holding fast to its own uniqueness. [Jun 2011, p.87]
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Apr 28, 2011This could be interpreted as a murky world of drug paranoia, or it could be a response to possible political disinformation and spin. Either way, it has made for one of UK bass music's most intelligent and consistent full length works.
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Apr 26, 2011When a lunar time capsule next needs a musical artefact of almost indeterminable age, Kode9 & The Spaceape are your men.
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Apr 26, 2011Black Sun is spotty and rusted, and it is likely that it will be interesting to most for this or that track - a grimy slayer, a leftfield floorfiller - or for the fact that it has a fantastic musique concrète apocalyptic vignette featuring Flying Lotus for a coda.
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Apr 20, 2011The irony is Black Sun is better-suited for the club. The album's sounds and ideas are large enough to fill a dark, echoing room.
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Apr 26, 2011Tension and anxiety don't always have to be cavernous and austere, and Black Sun reveals a way for dubstep's vanguard to express their more ominous impulses in a way you can still dance to, no matter how the steps change.
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The WireMay 3, 2011Black Sun has a broader palette, even if it's not really any lighter. [Apr 2011, p.53]
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Apr 26, 2011The privilege of reinvention is something we've always granted rock bands, so why not extend the courtesy to Black Sun, an electronic album that's awkward but earnest.
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Positive: 3 out of 4
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