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Aug 26, 2014On Green Language, we witness risks. We listen anxiously as Rustie bets a Brinks truck on his emotional wherewithal, and that bet pays out exponentially.
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Q MagazineAug 29, 2014The vocalist work fine but instrumentals like Tempest and Velcro demonstrate that Rustie's personality is plenty big enough on its own. [Oct 2014, p.118]
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Aug 26, 2014Whyte has made an LP that rises and falls gracefully, proving that even his brand of everything-all-the-time dance music has room for nuance and subtlety.
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Aug 26, 2014Isolating his experimental tendencies to specific tracks leads to some uneven pacing on the album's second half. Otherwise, Green Language fully delivers, serving as a fascinating turn for an artist who earned his reputation by essentially bashing fans into submission with bass.
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Aug 25, 2014Rustie's hyper-enjoyable second album derives its title and some odd peacefulness from an unlikely source: birdsong, aka the green language, which was to medieval mystics the perfect mode of expression.
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Aug 25, 2014For his second album, also released on Warp, Rustie indeed slows it down a bit and peels away some layers, but he does so without making any concessions to politeness.
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Aug 22, 2014At a time when fellow Scots Hudson Mohawke, Calvin Harris and Jackmaster are making names for themselves across electronic music genres, Rustie's sitting in a space that's all his own.
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Sep 5, 2014Green Language feels like yet another standout release from the thinking man's Skillex. [Sep/Oct 2014, p.81]
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Aug 27, 2014The main issue with Green Language is that it feels scattered.
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Aug 26, 2014On one level, these tracks might be compared to ambient music in its non-teleological synthesized progressions that are more concerned with exploration than attainment. But there is still an astonishing feeling of fluid movement maintained throughout, thereby avoiding stagnancy.
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Aug 26, 2014Green Language is an adventurous, enthralling, emotional and frequently brilliant album, then. And yet, from an artist of such rare talent, it’s also a frustrating, slightly underwhelming one.
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Aug 25, 2014It doesn’t hit the heights of his debut nor is it quite so thrilling; however, it is certainly an impressive work nonetheless.
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Aug 22, 2014There are great tracks on Green Language, but a lack of consistency stops it from being a great album.
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Sep 9, 2014Unfortunately, Rustie’s seemingly inherent need to zig when expected to zag has resulted in an awkwardly stitched together ragdoll of otherwise intriguing and successful pieces.
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Sep 9, 2014Green Language is by no means a bad album, but there are glimpses of an adrenaline shot of a record that could have been made.
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Aug 28, 2014Originality may not abound but Green Language still remains an undeniably fun record to sink your teeth into.
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Aug 26, 2014Sometimes Rustie's at the rave ("Raptor"), other times he's chilling on the porch ("Green Language") and still others he's rocking out in the garage ("A Glimpse" ends with a 16-second dream-punk hit)--but he's never easy to pin down.
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Aug 22, 2014There are certainly high points to be found here, but the feeling that vital cogs in the Rustie machinery are missing never quite subsides.
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Aug 22, 2014The sugar is here, but teeth will get itchier.
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Aug 22, 2014The inconsistencies within Green Language, unfortunately, undermine the potential beauty of the album’s closing few minutes.
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The WireDec 2, 2014Deprived of the rushing, crescendoless highs of Glass Swords, the tracks often seem to struggle to articulate their fascination, or to find satisfying structures. [Sep 2014, p.60]
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Sep 10, 2014It is largely an album that, despite finding acmes in doing what Rustie does best, has more troughs than peaks, and lacks the impish, distinctive touches that made Glass Swords such a striking listen.
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Aug 29, 2014It’s most thrilling moments are the ones you’ve already heard before.
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Aug 29, 2014Not all DJs can be producers and vice versa. Rustie’s trendsetting ability is rivaled by few, but that hasn’t translated into an equally challenging full-length endeavor.
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Aug 26, 2014Up and down we go, and each time the adrenaline rush lessens.
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Sep 9, 201413 songs in 36 minutes is a constrictive ratio for a record with so many proposed ideas, and its brevity makes Rustie’s ideas sound especially half-hearted. It’s bad enough that he doesn’t give the more physical tracks enough time to flex their muscles, but the tracks which suffer most are the briefer, more innocuous pieces.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 14
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Mixed: 4 out of 14
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Negative: 1 out of 14
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