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Sep 24, 2015Polaris is the record that Tesseract have been working toward. The evolved maturity of their writing, playing, and arranging is matched by the experience and confidence Tomkins gained while away.
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Sep 23, 2015With shades of Tool and Aereogramme, but mainly its own beast, Polaris is pure confidence converted into sound.
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Sep 23, 2015It's a bold start to another chapter in TesseracT's existence, who will only benefit from having all the pieces back in their rightful place.
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Kerrang!Oct 7, 2015They've managed to serve up complexity in a deceptively digestible manner. [10 Oct 2015, p.52]
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Sep 23, 2015Polaris is, at last, the platonic ideal of a TesseracT album, the one where they get everything just right.
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Sep 23, 2015Polaris is well-produced (even if the bass is dialed in several clicks too high), decently written, and properly executed for what it is. Critically speaking, however, it takes few musical risks and fails to launch any sort of vocal or instrumental melody, relegating it to a position as the sort of album you could take or leave in an artist's discography.
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