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Jan 26, 2012MU.ZZ.LE finds the idiosyncratic artist more focused than ever.
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Jan 24, 2012In general it pays to avoid electronic producers with dreadlocks, but let Sumach 'Gonjasufi' Ecks be your exception.
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Jan 20, 2012The results of these bursts of levity are as stark as Quran verses scrawled on Vegas brothel walls and recall why Sumach Ecks remains a rare, unsettling voice.
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Jan 20, 2012Notably shorter than its predecessor, MU.ZZ.LE is just as rich and arresting, cataloguing Sumach's echoes, mumbles and stumbles through an album of lethargic trip hop and uneasy paranoia.
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Jan 20, 2012It's Gonjasufi's voice that hypnotises.
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Jan 25, 2012MU.ZZ.LE might be a transitional point on Gonjasufi's path and it shows just one face of an eclectic, multifaceted performer. But it's also that rare album that feels meditative and cathartic all at once.
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Jan 24, 2012The only strikes against the moody and soulful MU.ZZ.LE are its length, a curt 24 minutes, and the fact that outside of headphones, the LP's emanations tend to get lost in a room.
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Feb 10, 2012If he'd shown us a little more, MU.ZZ.LE would be altogether more satisfying, but that's just not Gonjasufi's style.
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Feb 6, 2012His darkest and most oppressive work to date.
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Feb 2, 2012An enticing, at times uncomfortable and intoxicating record.
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Feb 2, 2012Valentine... seems to be going exclusively for chills. The beats simmer and creak along with a Freddie Kreuger-like persistence.
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Jan 27, 2012While MU.ZZ.LE isn't thrilling, in the suspense film sense, it manages to strike a rewarding middle ground between comfort and pain, simplicity and difficulty.
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Under The RadarJan 23, 2012It might be hard to swallow, but there's no denying how effectively Gonjasufi can warp his world and get under our skin. [#39, p. 74]
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Jan 23, 2012Occasionally the listener is carried away on the soulful cusp of Gonjasufi's scraggly voice, but more often than not they are simply overwhelmed.
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Jan 20, 2012However, dark and compelling though MU.ZZ.LE undoubtedly is, there is the niggling sense that this greater focus and narrow tempo range doesn't really suit Gonjasufi.
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MojoFeb 27, 2012If he fits a lot into a brief span, it can also seem like a selection of raw sketches for works still to be fully realized. [Mar 2012, p.103]
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Q MagazineFeb 13, 2012MU.ZZ.LE is more crackly, lo-fi trip-hop, like something beamed in from another planet. [Feb 2012, p.110]
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Feb 10, 2012MU.ZZ.LE isn't the perfect album either, but it is another bizarre step in the unfolding vision of a very unique voice, a tantalizing and far too brief hint at something magnificent to come.
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Jan 26, 2012The problem with MU.ZZ.LE is that, as a self-produced effort, it blatantly lacks the restraint that might otherwise have seen this become something truly extraordinary.
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Jan 24, 2012MU.ZZ.LE sounds like outtakes from the last LP--that is, short underwater dub/downtempo emotronica cast-offs--except it is darker.
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UncutJan 20, 2012Gonjasufi's nervous energy makes MU.ZZ.LE strangely soothing. [Feb 2012, p.86]
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Jan 26, 2012Hopefully we'll hear something redeeming from Gonjasufi, because MU.ZZ.LE is a step in the wrong direction, or even worse, a step backwards.
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The WireJan 23, 2012Putting it plainly, this stuff sounds really old. The beats are dull, flat and 'blunted' in the least appealing sense. [Jan 2012, p.56]