• Record Label: Mute
  • Release Date: Jul 31, 2020
Metascore
81

Universal acclaim - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
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  1. The Wire
    Nov 6, 2020
    80
    Supple openendedness of texture and the cyclic reoccurrence become one and the same as the music goes on and on – liberating words in time, rather than setting them in stone. [Sep 2020, p.46]
  2. Uncut
    Aug 4, 2020
    80
    Like a rolling stone made of avant-garde music and sadness. [Sep 2020, p.27]
  3. Q Magazine
    Aug 4, 2020
    80
    The way Blumberg expands and contracts the title track four times over the record, or filters a warped background shriek into Silence Breaker, underlines his experimental drives, his desire to push through sound barriers. [Sep 2020, p.107]
  4. 80
    It’s Blumberg’s longest commitment to a way of working, which is just as well because it is brilliant.
  5. Aug 4, 2020
    78
    This all makes On&On Blumberg’s most accomplished and also his most mystifying work to date.
  6. Aug 4, 2020
    76
    Blumberg asserts that even for the creator, a song can be whatever you need it to be in the moment, a vessel for self-exploration. On&On shows that he’s wholly enmeshed his songwriting and improvisation in a way that feels unique to him.
  7. Aug 27, 2020
    70
    While tracks like the fractured, jarring "Sidestep Summer" are as uneasy as Blumberg's previous two records, On&On is ultimately much more hopeful, if not quite inviting or accessible.

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