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  • Summary: This is the second release from the collaboration between Matthew Cooper and Mark T. Smith.
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  1. Positive: 6 out of 9
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  1. Mar 10, 2015
    80
    Sometimes challenging, other times comforting, Inventions encourage you to step inside the imagination portal and dream.
  2. Mar 10, 2015
    80
    Maze of Woods is a superb record and one that should give confidence in the continued potential of the band.
  3. Mar 16, 2015
    80
    The sounds he and Smith craft together gel in a way far more urgent and quickly unfolding than most Eluvium material, taking Maze of Woods into a place that seems less quietly observant and more driven to explore, attempt, and understand.
  4. Mar 10, 2015
    70
    Often interesting and occasionally moving, and at a compact 40 minutes, Maze Of Woods certainly doesn’t outstay its welcome and steers well clear of self-indulgence.
  5. 65
    The artistry is unquestionable, but ultimately the indulgence of the album’s creation seems to have fogged Invention’s original vision.
  6. Mar 16, 2015
    60
    Maze Of Woods occupies a different plain, a more embryonic one that finds its stand out moments in a subtler way.
  7. Q Magazine
    Mar 10, 2015
    40
    Its meticulously layered creations are hampered by both a pervasive aura of high seriousness and general lack of sonic variation. [Mar 2015, p.110]

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