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  • Summary: The latest in the DJ-Kicks mix series features four new songs from British electronic producer Matt Cutler.
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  1. Nov 7, 2017
    80
    As the mix migrates to the dancefloor, Lone drops some smooth 90s techno with John Beltran’s ‘Placid Angles’ and the cyber-electro of Drexciya’s ‘Bubble Metropolis’, before signing off with Radiohead’s obscure and atmospheric mood sketch ‘Worrywort’.
  2. Nov 7, 2017
    76
    DJ-Kicks lays out each of his influences piece by piece, almost like listening to a deconstructed Lone album. For fans of Cutler's singular music, it's an essential entry in his discography.
  3. Nov 7, 2017
    76
    Lone’s DJ-Kicks probably won’t get your party started--not in a great hurry, anyway. But it fits snugly into an illustrious line of DJ-Kicks albums that favor the mind over the feet and the bean bag over the dancefloor.
  4. Nov 7, 2017
    70
    Lone's take on DJ-Kicks nails it right out of the gate, but starts to lose its eclectic melange as it pushes forward, swapping out the nuanced front half of the album with bland cut-outs that vary too little.
  5. Jan 9, 2018
    70
    More than many other DJ Kicks releases, this one comes across like a cassette mixtape, with Cutler trying to get in a bit of everything he likes in under 80 minutes while giving it some sense of design and flow. It's not going to be the soundtrack to a club night, or probably not even the chillout room. But as far as lazing around Cutler's living room, or yours, it's pretty great.