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- Summary: The electronic artist/producer who previously worked on Coldplay's Viva La Vida releases his first album on the Domino label.
- Record Label: Domino
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Positive: 6 out of 8
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Mixed: 2 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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buzzes. His talent as a musician shines through in his ability to avoid having his theoretically contrasting influences sound forced together. If anything he has made them compliment each other.
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On a purely compositional level, this is dazzling and downright brilliant. But on a purely artistic level, Insides is a startling accomplishment.
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Craftsmanship sets him apart, and allows Insides to be as incredibly moving as it is and always will be. It will easily be one of the best electronic albums of 2009.
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The album succeeds in meting out these many moods in a way that’s consistently listenable, for both those who use might use Coldplay as an entry point and the cynical veterans of a consistently dynamic electronic music scene. Insides is among 2009’s very best.
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'Autumn Hill' is one of several tracks that will doubtless find their way onto soundtracks (Hopkins's main source of revenue), but Insides deserves to be heard as a unique and complete work of art in its own right.
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Q MagazineThis still shows renewed ambition, broadening the cool, Eno-inspired palette of his previous work. [Jun 2009, p.124]
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His debut for Domino, 2009's Insides, is his first record that many people will hear and it's a promising, but flawed, debut.
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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sambAug 16, 2009This album is a real piece of art.
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Nov 19, 2016
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BarneyRJul 3, 2009
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