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- Summary: This is the second full-length album for the British electronic artist.
- Record Label: Border Community
- Genre(s): Indie, Electronic
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Mixed: 7 out of 11
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Impressively, then, Nathan Fake has shown he is very much more than a one trick pony, with a bold second album statement that gets more impressive with every listen. We should watch his every move closely.
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Hard Islands is the nasty business that grabs a hold of your short and curlies and never lets go until your rocks are off.
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The result is writ large on this brilliant second album, which welds his drifting soundscapes to fractious, rapturous techno.
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Hard Islands is hardly a wash, just frustratingly short of the sound statement Fake wanted to make.
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UncutHis tunes have taken a tougher, more urban tone, with stand-outs 'The Turtle' and 'Basic Mountain' building to hard edged concrete peaks, drenched in acid Rephlex bleeps. [Jun 2009, p.85]
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Ultimately, it lacks the variety or the startling sonic leaps that would make it essential. Interesting, but no cigar.
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A few of the Hard productions are among Fake’s finest to date, but this release--its short running time aside--works primarily on a collection basis, as if it were two separate EPs gathered for one release and nothing more than that.
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