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- Summary: This is the debut full-length release for the German electronic producer.
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- Record Label: Ninja Tune
- Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock
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Sep 14, 2015The melodies are polymerous, and Hauff’s deft technical flourishes mean that different instruments merge in and out of each other to create ever changing, but constant patterns.
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Sep 2, 2015As the whole, though, Discreet Desires is more introverted than Hauff's previous material. She's attempted to present a unified piece with this album, rather than a selection of similar tracks, and it's a gambit that's paid off in spades.
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Sep 2, 2015It may sound dark, cold, gothic and rough around the edges compared to software-produced music, but these sounds have proved over the decades that they will set your synapses alight with delight.
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Sep 4, 2015Discreet Desires is a fascinating debut album, demonstrating the right way to transition from an underground, 12"-only electronic producer to a full-scale album artist, greatly expanding upon previous ideas while avoiding sounding overblown and remaining rough and exhilarating.
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Sep 15, 2015Some of the best moments on Discreet Desires occur when she's flexing these unexpected songwriting chops.
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MojoSep 2, 2015Hauff gives you the feeling that there's something very wrong, and leaves you to make up your own nasty stories. [Oct 2015, p.96]
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The WireSep 2, 2015Her latest iteration that limited palette of vintage machines feels trapped in the past; evocative but ossified. [Sep 2015, p.45]