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Jun 11, 2014Lone tunes are nothing if not growers--but there’s no question that this is one of our best artists on the form of his life.
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Jun 16, 2014This is Lone's best work to date, and one that shows it's possible to keep evolving while holding onto a strong sense of identity.
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Jun 11, 2014Amongst the album’s subtler shades, some might miss Lone’s trademark fireworks, but while Reality Testing might not bear the genre-defining feel of its predecessor, its personality and refreshing humanity provide ample compensation.
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Q MagazineJul 2, 2014It all serve to confirm Cutler as one of contemporary electronica's most gifted and distinctive sonic manipulators. [Aug 2014, p.110]
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Jun 30, 2014His dance credentials already assured, this feels like Cutler reasserting his artistry; an exercise in expressive revivalism, where myriad influences are sketched from memory; an album whose headline proposition is new, despite the ageing origins of its component parts.
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Jun 26, 2014Tracks such as Coincidences and Begin to Begin may build into stompers, but the sound palette they are constructed with could have been chosen by Brain Eno or Aphex Twin.
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Jun 19, 2014Reality Testing stands as one of the year's best, most luxuriant, and accomplished electronic albums, more proof that when it comes to forging a new future out of what’s already taken place, Cutler remains at the top of his game.
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Jun 16, 2014Even when the tracks sound more sketch-like, not fully formed--2013 single "Airglow Fires" is a trifle by Cutler's standard--the sheer moods are appealing.
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Jun 16, 2014It shows him settling into a state of deep contentment, evoking the same warm and fuzzy feeling you get from throwing on a record that you know inside and out.
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Jun 16, 2014Cutler’s music hasn’t tended to concern itself with tension so much as otherwordly harmony. When he introduces a bit of friction--between the real and the imagined, the grit of life and the sheen of fantasy--the results are all the more seductive.
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Jun 16, 2014Lone coats everything in the same Orbital-esque melodies that made 2012’s 'Galaxy Garden' such a winner, producing an album that is both intriguingly new and gorgeously listenable.
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Jun 13, 2014Every time he approaches a sound that’s already been touched upon by countless other artists, he looks to cast conventional ideas in a 22nd Century chasm. He looks so far ahead, the rest can’t keep up.
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Jun 11, 2014It's this widening of scope, combined with such a strong sense of identity, which makes Reality Testing tick over beautifully.
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Jun 26, 2014It's a fine and enjoyable listen, and it's certainly Lone's most consistent album to date, but at times it can't help but feel slight.
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Jun 20, 2014On Reality Testing he’s poking a worlds in-between fiction and fantasy, testing the waters where waking life and imagination are mixed together.