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- Summary: The eighth full-length solo release for ex-Destroyer drummer Scott Morgan was inspired by the score to the 1982 experimental film Koyaanisqatsi by Phillip Glass.
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- Record Label: Kranky
- Genre(s): Electronic, Avant-Garde, Pop/Rock, Post-Rock, Experimental Techno, Experimental Electronic, Ambient Techno
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Nov 9, 2016Monument Builders is an augmented reality to spend time with, explore and get lost in.
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Dec 16, 2016The individual tracks here are no less weighty or patient, but it feels like a fire has been lit under Morgan, moving him to make his point more sharply than any before.
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Nov 9, 2016Monument Builders doesn’t offer a happy ending, but nor is it devoid of hope. Perhaps Loscil’s most confrontational record, it processes the darkness in order to expunge it.
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Nov 14, 2016Some of Loscil’s best, most menacing, most uncompromising work.
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Dec 5, 2016Monument Builders is a powerful reminder that ambient music is a fine conduit for emotionally and politically charged messages, and it's one of Morgan's finest works yet.
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Nov 14, 2016Scott Morgan has made a career of showing us waters and watering places. With Monument Builders, we are finally invited to drink.
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MojoNov 22, 2016He [Scott Mogan] references Phillip Glass, anti-humanist literature and aerial photos of industrial pollution. [Jan 2017, p.104]
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