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Mar 2, 2016You can spot similarities and name-check influences throughout, but Principe Del Norte still stands as Hermansen's most distinctive and satisfying record to date.
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Mar 23, 2016A record which brings us to a high watermark in electronic music and bravely sets us on a course toward the future.
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Feb 18, 2016Like his pioneering UK heroes, this hour-long LP works best lost in the moment with your ears nestled between a pair of good speakers and your head in the clouds.
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MojoFeb 17, 2016A succession of sprawling mini-epics--throbbing with energy, insidious basslines and pulsing chords--prevail. [Mar 2016, p.95]
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Feb 17, 2016Even with the album's epic length, it never feels meandering or indulgent, as Prins Thomas remains supremely focused throughout the entire journey, finding the duality between the different types of "cosmic" music.
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Apr 1, 2016Principe del Norte is an album and collection of tracks to be heard but not necessarily listened to.
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MagnetMar 30, 2016It does function gorgeously as a lush, entrancing mood piece, one that might pleasantly percolate along in the background, but could just as easily hold you rapt in the detailed folds of its layered, continuously evolving subarctic suites. [No. 129, p.61]
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UncutFeb 17, 2016Flashbacks to The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld and the KFL's Chill Out are inevitable, but there are woozy hints of early Black Dog on "C," too. [Mar 2015, p.77]
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Feb 17, 2016Principe doesn’t carve any revolutionary niches on or off the dance floor so much as it patiently, oh so patiently, chips away at Thomas’ own reputation as a space-disco purveyor
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Feb 25, 2016Principe del Norte across as genial, charmingly rumpled, and totally unflappable.
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Feb 18, 2016A subsequent stretch of pleasant but generic cosmic disco coasts on the listener’s sangria-fuelled goodwill. But the urgency of the final two tracks suits Thomas, as pace brings them into focus, and clouds of minor chords send the sunbathers scurrying for cover.
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Feb 17, 2016Much of Principe's second half finds him repackaging the first half with plodding disco beats that make the initially exciting melodies seem boring the second (and third, and fourth) time around.