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MojoJul 8, 2015One of the most surprising ambient albums of the year. [Aug 2015, p.95]
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Jul 8, 2015Pattern of Excel shows the latest brilliant incarnation of an artist who's sure to have many in the years to come.
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Aug 10, 2015Pattern Of Excel succeeds during those little moments that capture Bannon's way with mood and melody.
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Jul 28, 2015Even where his pieces feel unscripted and accidental, they all manage to paint a doomy melancholy which has a filmic charm.
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Jul 10, 2015Unpredictable and ruthlessly abstract, Pattern of Excel is possibly the most avant-garde release in Ninja Tune's long history, and may seem like a stark departure from Lee Bannon's earlier works, but it's really just a continuation of his tendency to follow his fearlessly creative spirit into uncharted territory.
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Jul 14, 2015For an album with a swimming pool on its cover, it doesn’t exactly submerge you in its sonic layers. Rather, it’s a wade through the shallow water heading to the deep end of the pool.
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Jul 8, 2015Pattern of Excel is similarly idiosyncratic--it feels, in many ways, like a fistful of sketches torn from the notebook and tossed to the wind. Making sense of the ways they fall is part of the pleasure of this quiet, cryptic record.
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MagnetJul 8, 2015It's a loosely coherent mood piece that, despite (mostly) maintaining a murky, somnambulant vibe, nevertheless leapfrogs around an impressive scrapheap of refurbished ideas. [No. 122, p.55]