Safe
by Visionist
  • Record Label: Pan
  • Release Date: Oct 9, 2015
Metascore
83

Universal acclaim - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. Resident Advisor
    Oct 13, 2015
    82
    Safe is an incongruous blend of calm and anxiety. It's also full of raw human emotion.
  2. The Quietus
    Nov 3, 2015
    80
    With Safe, Visionist has created a work so forward-thinking it's positively post-modern.
  3. Mojo
    Oct 27, 2015
    80
    Louis Carnell crafts grime's own I Hear A New World. [Dec 2015, p.91]
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  5. Tiny Mix Tapes
    Oct 15, 2015
    80
    The music on Safe is embedded in the contours of an anxiety attack itself. Rather than an attempt at inducing states of rest, the music is contrarily restless and embroiled in agony.
  6. The Wire
    Oct 13, 2015
    80
    It carries with it the expressivity of darker electronic take on popular forms, and exchanges the cliches of this UK habit for new and complex alien intimacies. [Oct 2015, p.49]
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  7. Exclaim
    Oct 13, 2015
    80
    His is an askew version of experimental electronic music that is as engaging a vision as it is singular.
  8. Pitchfork
    Oct 13, 2015
    79
    Diaphanous of texture but heavy of spirit, Safe revolves upon this tension, the pressure point of a soul under strain.
  9. Spin
    Oct 14, 2015
    70
    Despite the fact that Carnell appears on the cover of his own record drained of both pigment and life, this record’s full of both--moments of calm that justify the storm, peaceful lapping waves that follow the tempest.

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