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- Summary: The second full-length release for Brooklyn-based electronic producer James Hinton used vocal samples he found on YouTube.
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- Record Label: Domino
- Genre(s): Electronic, Downtempo, Pop/Rock, Indie Electronic, Experimental Techno, IDM, Jungle/Drum'n'Bass
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Positive: 14 out of 15
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Mixed: 1 out of 15
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Negative: 0 out of 15
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Mar 25, 2016Potential not only makes a shockingly strong case for the top tier of contemporary sample-indebted achievements (alongside pillars including Burial’s Rival Dealer EP and Jamie xx’s In Colour), but does so while insisting that the universe, much like ourselves, will never be explored in its entirety.
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Mar 28, 2016The Range’s new album Potential overflows with humanity, and that fact is what elevates it from just a quality electronic record to a universally important piece of work.
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Mar 22, 2016It’s a creative, deeply introspective record that makes up for in depth what it doesn’t quite reach in soaring heights.
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Mar 22, 2016Hinton has an ability, not unlike the Books when they first hit the scene 14 years ago, of making shopworn techniques in sound manipulations seem strangely fresh, and Potential is the kind of music that makes you think about what your own part in a seemingly passive musical transaction of music might mean.
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Q MagazineMar 22, 2016While Hinton's selections vary wildly in style, the production is both fluid and empathic. [May 2016, p.114]
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Mar 25, 2016Potential is as great an album as it is a story, and the songs allow you to sink into them while simultaneously offering a chance to think about one’s dreams and actually putting in the effort to chase them.
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Mar 28, 2016The title is optimistic: few of these vocalists display obvious potential, and their presence amid Hinton’s finely calibrated beats can be jarring. The clockwork production accentuates their awkwardness.... It helps that Hinton’s regard for these wannabe superstars seems genuine.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Dec 7, 2017
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