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Honest Labour Image
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  • Summary: This is the second full-length release for the Manchester electronic duo Joshua Inyang and Joshua Reid.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Oct 20, 2021
    80
    Like Reed, Tarelle and Inyang are involved in gritty, street-level investigative poetics. ... This is detective work, through which they hope to discover their own place—figuratively and literally—a sense of purpose, of honest labour.
  2. Oct 20, 2021
    80
    A genre-spanning collection of extraordinarily detailed interludes, asides, and transmissions, the record gets at emotion in an oblique fashion, remaking your desires as it plays.
  3. Mojo
    Oct 20, 2021
    80
    An intermittently discomfiting record, tinged with sadness and beautifully composed. [Oct 2021, p.97]
  4. Uncut
    Oct 20, 2021
    80
    With each track the listener sinks deeper into their world, and though the punchier rap numbers like "B£E" cut through, these scruffily celestial miniatures add up to present a compelling picture. [Dec 2021, p.33]
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  1. Nov 7, 2021
    9
    An absolutely fantastic piece of ambience, I never knew where this project was going to take me, but every track had me engaged throughoutAn absolutely fantastic piece of ambience, I never knew where this project was going to take me, but every track had me engaged throughout it's lengthy track list. Easily one of my favorites of the year. Expand