Buy Now
- Critic score
- Publication
- By date
-
Nov 4, 2016Witty, 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.
-
Dec 5, 2016The 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.
-
The WireNov 8, 2016This 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]
-
MojoOct 31, 2016The set pivots around its experimental jazz title track, where warming Rhodes are counterpointed by fractured beats, fidgety bleeps and trills. [Dec 2016, p.93]
-
Oct 13, 2016It’s a brilliant, confounding piece of work, in other words, although good luck finding its niche in your well-ordered record collection.
-
Oct 13, 2016DVA 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.
-
Oct 13, 2016It'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.
-
Oct 13, 2016The 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.
Awards & Rankings
There are no user reviews yet.