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MojoMay 20, 2015An engaging, yet still hip-swinging trip. [Jun 2015, p.96]
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May 14, 2015Lush, focused and well wrought in a way that channels the Pretty Things' S.F. Sorrow as much as Stereolab's Emperor Tomato Ketchup without seeming too reverent about its predecessors or anachronistic in its execution.
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May 1, 2015Hypnophobia is a beautiful, and sometimes tragic, look into the mind of a talented and tortured artist.
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UncutApr 29, 2015Impressively, Gardner's instrumnetals such as "Grey Lanes" and "All Over" show how he can effectively summon up an exquisite nostalgia for an invented '60s. [Jun 2015, p.76]
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Apr 27, 2015Though it may take several listens before you realise how comprehensively it’s seeped into your pores. It’s a subtly fetching, minor-chorded, soft-pop sepulchre, conveyed with stealth and tranquilly defocused implication, as opposed to sturm und drang.
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Apr 27, 2015If Gardner's studio ingenuity tends to outshine his songs, the record's sonic puzzles are beguiling enough to signal a clear step forward for one of neo-psych's more promising disciples. [Apr-May 2015, p.82]
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Apr 27, 2015Even if one may argue that stylistically there's not a massive divide in the progression between the two albums, a thin yet omnipresent veil of inquiétude covers most of Hypnophobia's tracks, turning the ensemble of the LP into an almost visual exercise of self-induced trance.
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MagnetJun 4, 2015Occasionally struggling to balance style with substance, Gardner nonetheless makes Hypnophobia much more than just an exercise in sonic adventurism. [No. 120, p.55]
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May 4, 2015Despite these small tweaks to his established, well-oiled formula, Hypnophobia feels like a natural follow-up to Cabinet, with Gardner not looking to do much of anything new.