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Jul 29, 2015Everything about this finely wrought yet diabolically chaotic album feeds a theme: The more we try to manicure reality, in life and online, the messier it gets.
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Jun 25, 2015Even if this record isn't perfect, it's clear that she will become an influential figure in high-brow electronic music.
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Jun 9, 2015Holly Herndon is far too conceptual to ever really merit banal classification as a techno or electronic producer, and with a bigger platform (intentional), she shows that her vision opens a multitude of possibilities that go beyond genre. Platform isn’t the album to realize that potential, so obvious since Movement, but it’s a tantalizing taste of the future.
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Jun 3, 2015Platform is full of beautifully corrupted, synthesised signals.
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Jun 3, 2015On paper, then, the concept of an album that comes so consummately out of this context may not be the most appealing. In reality, Herndon's second full-length proper, Platform, which does just that, is one of the best records you'll hear this year.
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May 22, 2015Platform is continuously emotive, although it never quite tops the peak of “Chorus”.
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May 21, 2015Despite the wide scope of her project, Herndon’s ambitious efforts are appealingly multifaceted and personal, and Platform may turn out to be the most thought-provoking experimental electronic music release of the year.
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May 20, 2015It’s structurally confounding, simultaneously weirder and more welcoming than any of the other material she’s released to date.
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May 19, 2015In a way, on Platform too, there’s just too much control on the artist’s side and not enough room for engagement on the listener end. Still, Herndon is just setting to work as a musician, and she’s already pushing her sound well beyond the experiments of the 20th-century avant-garde.
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May 19, 2015Just as Holly Herndon's debut album Movement had abundant layers in its title alone, its follow-up Platform is just as nuanced in how it combines political, technological and structural and ideological concepts into a single word.
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May 18, 2015On her second album she manages to sound both futuristic and steeped in history.
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May 18, 2015This is very much an album that feels necessary right now--one that packs a political punch without being didactic or evangelical--and offers positive thinking, including a clarion call of co-operative and community responses to global issues.
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The WireMay 15, 2015The ten laptop compositions of Platform are brilliant, thrilling articulations of many of her ideas. [May 2015, p.50]
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May 15, 2015It's always drifting, skilfully, from challenging noise to fragmented affection in the most beguiling way possible.
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May 14, 2015At once Herndon’s most accessible and most adventurous record, this is digital age avant-garde sound art put through a pop prism, and it’s all the more exciting as a result.
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May 14, 2015It’s another classy effort from an increasingly great band.
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May 12, 2015While still creating boundless, exceptional fringe-pop, on Platform Herndon is finding countless new ways to hold our attention: deploying a greater sense of narrative, an emboldened melodic arsenal and enough enthusiasm to remind us why she remains a vital voice in peripheral pop.
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Q MagazineMay 6, 2015Platform is always engaged and engaging, the questions it raises never merely academic. [Jun 2015, p.107]
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May 6, 2015Excepting curious conceptual moments like massage fantasy ‘Lonely At The Top'--Platform can concentrate on being beautiful electronic pop: think The Knife 2.0, perhaps.
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May 6, 2015Platform is a record that reveals itself slowly. An intelligent, intoxicating electronica record that draws the listener in and revealing new truths as it goes.
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UncutMay 6, 2015Platform is not a manifesto, but it feels like a galvanising challenge to Herndon's peers to embolden their ideas, broaden their horizons and push on into an undiscovered continent of sound. [Jun 2015, p.70]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 35 out of 42
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Mixed: 3 out of 42
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Negative: 4 out of 42
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May 21, 2015
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