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Concrete Desert Image
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78

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  • Artist(s): Earth
  • Summary: The debut full-length collaboration from The Bug’s Kevin Martin and Earth’s Dylan Carlson was recorded in two days in Los Angeles.
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  1. Apr 20, 2017
    84
    Concrete Desert is a response to a real environment. But the album feels less specific to a given city. It seems instead like a parallel space, one that builds an impression of some future dystopia.
  2. Mojo
    Apr 25, 2017
    80
    Evilly powerful, filmic and flowing. [Jun 2017, p.88]
  3. May 11, 2017
    80
    The merging of the two artists’ sounds feels entirely natural.
  4. Mar 23, 2017
    74
    It’s neo-neo-noir music that draws you into its discomfort. If its vast expanses leave listeners vulnerable, at least there’s more space to let yourself roam.
  5. Mar 23, 2017
    70
    Concrete Desert is far from relaxing, but chances are you already gathered that. While it is effective, at nearly 70 minutes, it's better digested in small doses to better distinguish the multiplicity of textural, dynamic, and sonic strategies at work in individual pieces.
  6. May 11, 2017
    70
    Concrete Desert is a potent blend of cinematic music-for-outsiders and deep, drone-leaning sounds.
  7. The Wire
    Jun 2, 2017
    70
    The album is ultimately defined by its ten minute centrepiece “American Dream” and the 14 minute closing title track. Both beatless, these two are painted in broad, expansive strokes by Martin and further shaded by some of the most mystifying motifs of Carlson’s career to date. [Apr 2017, p.49]

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