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Apr 9, 2014Given the ubiquity of some of this material, It's Album Time is a little tricky to assess on its own merit. But with tracks like "Delorean Dynamite," "Johnny And Mary," and "Old Joy," there are certainly plenty of grandiose stretches to keep us satisfied.
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Apr 7, 2014It’s a broad net Terje casts here, flitting through myriad styles but he always ensures they’re congealed in order to give the record a cohesiveness and rigidity.
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Apr 7, 2014Adventurous but not selfish, intelligent but not difficult, a victory lap of sorts but hardly congratulatory, Terje's first album is astoundingly balanced and astonishingly broad, a wider serving of the man's artistic vision that ultimately proves just as satisfying as his single servings have in the past.
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Apr 3, 2014It’s not just Album Time, it’s crazy psychedelic hoo-ha time, and it sounds pretty damn fine.
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Apr 7, 2014Terje’s cocky, frisky songwriting skills shine, and It’s Album Time easily clears the high bar the producer set for himself through his remixes and EPs.
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Apr 7, 2014For as much ground as he covers on It's Album Time, the music feels effortless, gliding from Henry Mancini-esque detective jazz to bouncy, Stevie Wonder funk like breeze blowing through the waffle weave of a leisure suit. Conventional wisdom bears out: The looser the grip, the tighter the hold.
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Apr 21, 2014It’s Album Time is a lock-tight demonstration of how crucial time is in the cultivation process. As a result, Todd Terje curated one of the most enjoyable albums that will cross our desk this year.
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Apr 7, 2014It’s Album Time finds Todd Terje shattering dance music stereotypes.
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Q MagazineJun 17, 2014Tongue-in-cheek though this often is, the self-indulgence is never at the expense of the music. [Jul 2014, p.114]
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May 28, 2014Todd Terje may have waited an unnaturally long time to produce a cohesive debut, but the unbridled wave of fun that it rides in on makes it one of the most surprising and indispensable records of 2014.
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May 14, 2014His propensity for pushing boundaries is carried over onto an album that devotes more than a third of its runtime to previously released songs. Terje took the remainder of that time and expended it on bold, successful new iterations of his aesthetic.
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Apr 28, 2014The Instagram of albums, which is to say a source of instant nostalgia, its 70s- and 80s-inspired cocktail of disco, house, lounge, samba et al, could be merely kitsch but is elevated both by the meticulousness of its production and the sinuous seductiveness of its melodies.
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MojoApr 23, 2014Perhaps Terje pushes the eclectic envelope too hard, but dance albums are rarely this fresh, distinctive and evolved. [May 2014, p.93]
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Apr 14, 2014He's turned in an electronic album that’s full of character without resorting to robot costumes or Pharrell bloody Williams.
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Apr 8, 2014Terje can make an aging gigolo's commentary on the folly of his misspent youth the centerpiece of his otherwise invigorating dance album because he's the rare crowd-pleasing DJ whose musical skills trump his proven ability to move butts.
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Apr 8, 2014His debut may have taken a decade to gestate, but we’ll probably still be unpacking its innovative grooves in another.
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Apr 8, 2014OK, it can be a bit tiring at times, but if you’re feeling open minded enough, this is a fluid, super-charged masterpiece.
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Apr 7, 2014It's Album Time is structured similarly, slowly building an argument that there's genuine talent behind the sheen of novelty, only to have Terje zigzag in the other direction, dodging the argument he would claim he wasn't even interested in making in the first place.
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Apr 7, 2014In short, if you fell out of love with dance music at the end of the 1990s, this may be the record to get you back in front of the big speakers.
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Apr 4, 2014He might have the Midas touch when it comes to genre, but when it comes to his last word, Terje is wise enough to say it in his first language.
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Apr 4, 2014It’s Album Time is an impressively balanced and varied record.
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Apr 4, 2014He sounds soft, restrained and beautiful.
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Apr 3, 2014All performed with good, non-satirical heart.
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Apr 3, 2014His focus on high-quality, vintage synth sounds gives the songs a unique flavour and energy that are hard to resist.
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Jun 30, 2014It’s Album Time is mostly instrumental, and devoted to sustaining one long groove that touches down on disco, lounge, and chillwave.
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Jun 17, 2014Not a bad album at all. In fact, at points it's really rather wonderful; it's just not quite the wall-to-wall fruity bangers one probably expected, but by no means as skip-heavy as the likes of Random Access Memories.
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UncutApr 3, 2014Fun for all the family. [May 2014, p.80]
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Apr 7, 2014As it stands, it's a hard album to get your head around and it's a hard album to fully embrace.
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Apr 3, 2014There's certainly nothing wrong with a producer as talented as Terje feeling constrained by the style of music that's made him famous and wanting to spread his wings. It's just that the areas that Terje spreads his wings into feel a bit hackneyed.
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Apr 9, 2014It’s Album Time is a great casual listen, but it’s obvious from its highlights that Terje is capable of even greater highs.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 48 out of 53
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Mixed: 5 out of 53
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Negative: 0 out of 53
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Apr 8, 2014Wow. This album just blew me away. Fantastic production and the beats are smart. It has some of the most memorable songs of the year. Well done, Todd!
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Apr 22, 2015
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Aug 26, 2014