Piteous Gate
by M.E.S.H.
  • Record Label: Pan
  • Release Date: Jul 31, 2015
Metascore
82

Universal acclaim - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. Exclaim
    Aug 5, 2015
    90
    Whipple's previous PAN release, the Scythians EP, hinted at the greatness to come from this Janus club night co-founder, yet was a little too short to really demonstrate his true power. It took a full-length release to truly suss out the immensity of M.E.S.H.
  2. AllMusic
    Dec 22, 2015
    80
    Piteous Gate is a gripping, suspenseful audio thriller, and along with 2015 releases by Fis, Lotic, Rabit, and Amnesia Scanner, it provides an eye-opening overview of how certain corners of the electronic music underground push club-derived sounds into confounding, challenging new directions.
  3. Dusted Magazine
    Sep 8, 2015
    80
    Piteous Gate is an absorbing listen front to back.
  5. Spin
    Sep 3, 2015
    80
    Piteous Gate is a porous, sensual record, revealing and alluring in ways that other albums aren’t.
  6. Resident Advisor
    Aug 6, 2015
    80
    What does it feel like to be alive in a digital age, overloaded and confused, but excited, too? What perspectives are possible now? Piteous Gate is a captivating attempt at putting those feelings into sound.
  7. The Wire
    Aug 5, 2015
    80
    A range of compositional strategies are succinctly worked through, pivots in structural dynamics executed with an often startling sharpness. [Aug 2015, p.52]
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  8. Tiny Mix Tapes
    Aug 5, 2015
    80
    The album’s subtlety and abstract tendencies prevent it from becoming solely a work of stock collage or pastiche appropriation.
  9. The Quietus
    Aug 5, 2015
    50
    As part of Berlin's Janus Collective, M.E.S.H.'s work is very much on the hardest edges of club culture to such an extent that it becomes hard to discern any humanity at work here.

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#92 Best Album of 2015

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