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Jun 30, 2017Mojave Desert, appropriately, feels like the end of a weekend retreat: restorative, over far too soon, and with its finer points already quickly fading from memory, but all in all, definitely worth doing again.
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Jul 5, 2017It’s less jazz and neoclassical than its predecessor, and more space rock--tracks such as Kelso Dunes introduce motorik beats into Shepherd’s modus operandi to no ill effect.
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Jun 30, 2017Not as immediately blissful as ‘Elaenia’, but a magical new direction nonetheless.
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UncutJun 29, 2017There is less self-indulgence and more inspired engagement with the album concept on shorter pieces. [Aug 2017, p.30]
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Jun 29, 2017With a release drowning in possibilities, Floating Points' latest is a humbling work of art, ridden in environmental discoveries, alongside an empowering sense of mental stability.
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Jun 29, 2017Without the visuals and context, the record can become excessively meditative at times, yet at its finest moments it re-forms the uninhabitable vastness of the desert-space as a blank canvas in the listener’s imagination, to be filled with inspiration of their own.
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Jun 29, 2017Reflections--Mojave Desert is arguably his most ambitious recording to date, if only because he availed himself of the Mojave Desert itself as his recording studio. Clocking in at under half an hour, the soundtrack shows Floating Points in a transitional phase.
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Jul 19, 2017Reflections may have required a more rigorous process to complete than any other project he’s ever done, but it is also his most compact to date, which rejects the common belief that bigger always means better.
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Jul 19, 2017Compared to the earlier Floating Points material designed to connect to the head more than the hips, this naturally comes across as underdeveloped, but it's engrossing nonetheless.
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Jun 29, 2017As an exercise in creativity, musical form, experimentation and sheer art, then, Reflections is to be commended, but as a standalone body of work it’s somewhat lacking in the substance, sculpted precision, urgency and depth that made Elaenia such an enthralling proposition.