• Record Label: Kranky
  • Release Date: Nov 11, 2016
Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
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  1. Dec 16, 2016
    80
    The 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.
  2. Dec 5, 2016
    80
    Monument 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.
  3. Nov 14, 2016
    80
    Some of Loscil’s best, most menacing, most uncompromising work.
  4. Uncut
    Nov 9, 2016
    80
    A towering success. [Dec 2016, p.32]
  5. Nov 9, 2016
    80
    Monument Building finds Loscil at his most focused, political and meticulous, a bleak but fulfilling listen whether you're aware of the album's brainy themes or not.
  6. 80
    Monument 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.
  7. Nov 9, 2016
    80
    Monument Builders is an augmented reality to spend time with, explore and get lost in.
  8. Nov 14, 2016
    74
    Scott Morgan has made a career of showing us waters and watering places. With Monument Builders, we are finally invited to drink.
  9. The Wire
    Dec 21, 2016
    70
    Monument Builders itself could do with some of that malfunction, some warped colour and cathode ray snow. [Dec 2016, p.69]
  10. Nov 30, 2016
    70
    Like the celestial throbs of Roly Porter’s Third Law from earlier in the year, the drones of Monument Builders exude uncertainty and their few instrumental complements exist in the same sphere of a paranoid status quo.

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