• Record Label: Hyperdub
  • Release Date: Oct 14, 2016
Metascore
82

Universal acclaim - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. Nov 4, 2016
    90
    Witty, conceptual, original and above all both musically exciting and enjoyable, it’s an understatement to say that DVA’s second album NOTU_URONLINEU is mature.
  2. Dec 5, 2016
    80
    The entire album is a startling, exciting future-shock that resonates in an era when dystopian sci-fi seem increasingly less fictional, and it's easily DVA's best work yet.
  3. The Wire
    Nov 8, 2016
    80
    This feels like a love letter to dayglo dreams of the online world of 20 years ago, with beats and samples too evolved, too exuberant to sink into mere nostalgia. [Oct 2016, p.51]
  4. Mojo
    Oct 31, 2016
    80
    The set pivots around its experimental jazz title track, where warming Rhodes are counterpointed by fractured beats, fidgety bleeps and trills. [Dec 2016, p.93]
  5. Oct 13, 2016
    80
    It’s a brilliant, confounding piece of work, in other words, although good luck finding its niche in your well-ordered record collection.
  6. Oct 13, 2016
    80
    DVA has created a bleak and expansive yet approachable album that perfectly encapsulates our troubled relationship with technology. The meticulously layered music is often extraordinary. He is an artist operating at the peak of his powers. This is a work of real substance which demands to be heard.
  7. Oct 13, 2016
    72
    It's pretty introspective in places, and the concept—something about a mega-corporation and virtual reality—might be Smart's way of leading his music off the dance floor and allowing it to take on fluid new forms.
  8. Oct 13, 2016
    71
    The result is a vision of a prospective future both strange and alluring, a journey through virtual spaces and experimental technologies that, at heart, feels human after all.

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