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  • Summary: The third full-length release for the Los Angeles-based artist is an concept album about a visitor from outer space who believes Earth is utopian.
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  • Record Label: Company Records
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Neo-Psychedelia, Chillwave
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
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  1. Uncut
    Oct 12, 2016
    80
    "Feedback Delicates" and "L'Quasar" shelter their hooks amid shimmery, heatstroke production; but there's an urgency here, too. [Nov 2016, p.40]
  2. Oct 12, 2016
    80
    Williams manages to retain the transportative element of his previous work while slightly neatening the edges.
  3. Oct 12, 2016
    70
    While a hypnogogic pop revival may be a tad premature, Vinyl Williams’ Brunei is a fine opening salvo, staying true to its most direct inspirations while ever so subtly pushing the form into vaguely new directions.
  4. Oct 12, 2016
    70
    For anyone who enjoys sinking into a gooey, sleepy, eerily warm, and keyboard-laden sonic murk, but still wants the occasional hooky tune to keep them happy, Brunei may be just the right thing to keep the good times peacefully rolling.