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May 3, 2013Excavation is a brilliant piece of work, one best enjoyed actively with a premium set of headphones, in solitude.
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May 20, 2013This is an album that seeks to explore a shifting in spiritual planes, and the music reflects this by twisting its source material into something entirely other.
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Apr 26, 2013Much as every black witch’s cloak is undeniably part of a discourse that includes both Black Sabbath and Black power, The Haxan Cloak is in a dialogue with contemporary dubstep, and with Excavation, he proves that he has much to add to the conversation.
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Apr 16, 2013Ultimately, what makes Excavation such an awesome and absorbing listen is precisely its indifference to the listener.
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Apr 12, 2013Excavation is vivid and physical, each moment meticulously and purposefully crafted.
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Apr 17, 2013Excavation gains power from gathering a little dust for a while, becoming a dark treat to occasionally sink into.
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Apr 30, 2013Listening to Excavation is a profoundly visceral experience.
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Apr 22, 2013It's undeniable that the album takes his gift for channeling dread in subtler, more complex directions and deserves to be listened to under headphones in total darkness.
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Apr 16, 2013He might have translated his sound into electronics with Excavation, but here Krlic's music feels more wrenchingly human than it ever has been.
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Apr 15, 2013The LP's strength is in that undecidedness. When he leans too far to one side, which actually doesn't happen all that often, the album can feel mournful or facile.
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Apr 12, 2013This is lightless, horrifically bleak electronic music, but it still sounds human despite its lack of words, melodies or analog instrumentation; there’s a tangible personality to it that’s all its own.
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Apr 12, 2013Spine-tinglingly brilliant.
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Apr 29, 2013Excavation is a dark, ominous and sinister album, but Bobby Krlic is too smart to focus solely on scaring the shit out of his listeners, instead using electronics and beats to explore the haunted past and uncertain present in ways that build on his previous output without rehashing tired “hauntology” clichés.
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The WireApr 24, 2013Krlic combines a flexible approach with an impressive deftness of touch, and Excavation sees him feeling out new ways through the shadows. [Apr 2013, p.50]
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Apr 15, 2013This album, for a short time, will make you question your sanity and the world around you.
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Apr 12, 2013As the Richard Harris exhibition showed, by enabling us to momentarily confront our own mortality, morbid artistic meditations on death can be oddly and overwhelmingly uplifting.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 38 out of 43
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Mixed: 3 out of 43
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Negative: 2 out of 43
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