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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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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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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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Feb 25, 2016Principe del Norte across as genial, charmingly rumpled, and totally unflappable.
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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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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, 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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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