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Universal acclaim - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
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  1. Jul 30, 2015
    90
    An album-long search for new ways to express old thoughts, and far from any prescribed formula of tempos and buggery that would entail techno or drum n’ bass or other electronic information media.
  2. Aug 6, 2015
    85
    Ultimately though, it is about mixing disparate influences and seeing how they blend together. Happily for all of us, this approach works brilliantly.
  3. Aug 5, 2015
    80
    Where once the band may have occasionally caught your ear, these songs command attention throughout.
  4. Aug 3, 2015
    80
    There may be no words, but their music speaks volumes--and is consistently rewarding and charming.
  5. 80
    At times it’s reminiscent of Zach Condon’s band Beirut, but Haiku Salut never stay still for too long, nuzzling up to folk one minute and slow drum’n’bass the next.
  6. Jul 30, 2015
    80
    This is an insinuating record, a sunshine-and-haywains counterpart to the sinister English ruralism of the likes of Hacker Farm, but one that nags at you once its charms are clear.
  7. Uncut
    Jul 30, 2015
    80
    The Derbyshire trio bring a pleasing experimentalism to their second LP. [Aug 2015, p.75]
  8. Mojo
    Jul 30, 2015
    80
    This is an album that seduces as readily as it challenges. [Sep 2015, p.88]
  9. 80
    Gemma and Sophie Bakerwood and Louise Croft exploring electronica, with deep synth tones, crunching glitch and, on ‘Divided By Surfaces And Silence’ and ‘Skip To The End’, flickers of drum ‘n’ bass. Wordless, sighing vocals grace the semi-acoustic techno of ‘Hearts Not Parts’, the trio’s voices rushing through the gaps in the instrumental wash.
  10. 75
    If this all sounds a bit linear, as though Etch and Etch Deep moves like a standard plot, well, that’s because it does. There’s no film to accompany it, but that doesn’t mean Haiku Salut’s second album doesn’t make for a fantastic score, providing a subtle emotional guide as it moves from point A to point B and each stop along the way.

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