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- Summary: The debut album for the side project by Alex Hall and Emil Amos of Grails features instrumental music from a wide variety of genres, including rap, 1970s soundtracks, and electronic music.
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- Record Label: Mexican Summer
- Genre(s): Electronic, Rap, Trip-Hop, Electronica, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Electronic, Left-Field Hip-Hop
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Positive: 3 out of 5
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Mixed: 2 out of 5
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Negative: 0 out of 5
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Mar 29, 2012As an exercise in mood and as an album of killer music, Lilacs & Champagne succeeds.
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Mar 21, 2012It's sort of campy stuff, but it's gripping in its willful oddity.
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Mar 21, 2012The best way to package this album-Flying Lotus, Madlib, and Ian Curtis in the weirdest musical threesome ever tailored for the likes of DOOM and Ghostface Killah-as the normal routes of genre identification don't quite do it here.
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Mar 21, 2012There are some missteps and some rookie mistakes here, but ultimately, the collaged beats and convergences of found sounds stumble onto brilliance more often than they fall to the wayside.
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Under The RadarMar 21, 2012Unfortunately, the record's too all-over-the-place to build any sort of engrossing atmosphere. [Mar 2012, p.87]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Sep 7, 2012
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