• Record Label: Warp
  • Release Date: Feb 25, 2014
Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 15
  2. Negative: 0 out of 15
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  1. Mojo
    Apr 23, 2014
    80
    Estoile Naiant is a work of excessive indirection and wonder that becomes terrifying only if you try to define its boundaries. [May 2014, p.90]
  2. The Wire
    Mar 28, 2014
    80
    The music here is beautiful and involving enough to stand up just fine by itself. [Mar 2014, p.59]
  3. Mar 3, 2014
    80
    The album isn’t easily chewed or digested, but certainly worth the taste.
  4. Feb 24, 2014
    80
    Estoile Naiant is an invigorating, perplexing journey through the post-modern contextual climate of the information age that has synthesized an almost completely new narrative for the future generation of music, one that is both progressive and retrospective all at once.
  5. 75
    Much like its creator and artwork, it remains unidentifiable, borderline incomprehensible even, but never less than thoroughly enthralling.
  6. Feb 28, 2014
    70
    Perhaps direction is lacking on moments in ESTOILE NAIANT, but for the most part, patten has harnessed the objects of previous releases and refined them.
  7. Feb 24, 2014
    70
    At times, Estoile Naiant is a challenging and occasionally thrilling listen, as Key Embedded particularly demonstrates. But it’s almost too typically Warp in its sound and composition.
  8. Feb 24, 2014
    70
    Estoile Naiant works as a satisfying continuation of patten's work, albeit one that moves his sound in a sideways direction.

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