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  • Summary: This is the debut full-length release for the British grime producer.
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  1. 80
    Drums are present, but they often function as little more than pensive timekeepers. All the better to frame those tunes – artful, delicate things, rarely saying more or less than they need to.
  2. Dec 4, 2014
    80
    Mr. Mitch goes full experimental, recalling the work of similarly minded artists such as Evian Christ and Shabazz Palaces, albeit in a more muted way.
  3. Dec 4, 2014
    80
    The album is sparse and its minimalism is round-edged the whole way through, yet the plethora of moods it induces--brooding to bittersweet--and its constantly meandering cadence are awe-inspiring.
  4. Dec 9, 2014
    79
    Now he's breaking out with a full-length record that's more restrained, more skeletal, and often more mournful than anything he's done before, a metamorphosis from somebody who's had fans growing to expect them on the regular.
  5. Uncut
    Dec 4, 2014
    70
    Parallel Memories is, in places, almost too minimal.... But Mitchell's softness of touch leads to some moving moments. [Jan 2015, p.75]
  6. Q Magazine
    Dec 8, 2014
    60
    What remains is a skeletal approach to production, all spare pulses and baleful samples channeled echo-chambered effects. It turns out, thought, that Mitchell also has a feel for deceptively simple melodies. [Jan 2015, p.129]
  7. Dec 15, 2014
    60
    For something as weighty as a debut album from a hotly-tipped artist, Parallel Memories feels a little too light for its own good.
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