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  • Summary: The debut release for the electronic collaboration between Wilco keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen and art historian James Merle Thomas features music inspired by (and two track actually contain) sounds from NASA's space recordings from the '60s and '70s.
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  1. Jul 26, 2017
    80
    For the relative specificity of thematic focus, Hip Mobility is varied in its sound. More than just mining the past for interesting artifacts, Quindar have created something surprisingly new here, and in having done so, project their art into the future.
  2. Jul 26, 2017
    80
    While Quindar is based on the unique conflation of space exploration and art, it is, after all, still art. A warm, multilayered collection of music that just happens to be alive with the rich, historical pulse of space.
  3. Uncut
    Jul 26, 2017
    70
    Hip Mobility favours digital modernism over analogue nostalgia, yet admits the wonder and romance inevitably in play. [Aug 2017, p.35]
  4. Jul 26, 2017
    68
    Frustrates as much as it entices, even more so than the Mikael Jorgensen & Greg O’Keeffe album, its older spiritual twin. ... For the third album in a row, Jorgensen has proven himself to be masterful at carving arrangements so that all the parts work in tandem in a perfect balance between form and function, not a skill to be taken lightly or under-utilized.