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Nov 13, 2012Dream On moves in pretty similar territory to Hive Mind and with almost as much flair.
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Nov 13, 2012The record touches on new tonal and structural territories, however incremental, while maneuvering within the same basic framework laid out in Ital's debut.
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Nov 13, 2012Dream On finds him utilizing the computer-processed end of his sound with a newly savage intensity.
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Nov 13, 2012Ital's sense of abrasion and his notion of groove are both finely tuned, so it's all for the best when they work in parallel.
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Feb 26, 2013The core of Dream On though is an album, and a good, if imperfect, one at that. It’s an LP worth exploring with the cultural filters both turned on and off.
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The WireDec 5, 2012Its best tracks suggest a similarly abrasive, exploratory and jammed on the fly approach to House music [as Jamal Moss].
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Nov 15, 2012This lack of clear signposts can make navigating the nightmare-laden second half of Dream On a bit more difficult as the sound effects pile up and the tracks get denser.
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Nov 15, 2012These are soundscapes rather than tracks.
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MojoNov 21, 2012Vocals are stretched and warped, beats submerged into icy baths. [Dec 2012, p.94]
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Nov 14, 2012As with Hive Mind, the record's most interesting moments are its briefest, almost as if Martin-McCormick's strongest ideas are the implied ones, the unrealised ones.
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Nov 13, 2012There's nothing tender here; clever it may be, but too clever for its own good.