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  • Summary: This is the sixth album for the IDM duo of Ed Handley and Andy Turner.
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  1. Mojo
    Dec 22, 2011
    80
    The cascading ping and pop of 35 Summers and arpeggiated digital melancholy of Unbank is evidence of Plaid's empathy with this most beguiling of music forms. [Nov 2011, p.103]
  2. Oct 19, 2011
    80
    Over a distant wash of keyboards chords, Plaid create a multilayered drift of what sounds like piano and tuned percussion notes. The effect is, literally, scintillating.
  3. Under The Radar
    Nov 9, 2011
    70
    Scintilli's pieces are as varied as ever, but carefully drawn, like working on separate days with blowtorch-on-metal or in purple and blue oils. [Oct. 2011, p. 113]
  4. Oct 26, 2011
    60
    There is a poise about Scintilli in its strongest moments that was absent even from those early blazed trails.
  5. Q Magazine
    Nov 8, 2011
    60
    Scintilli slowly builds an all-absorbing world, [with] tension between fear and beauty. [Nov. 2011, p. 139]
  6. Nov 3, 2011
    60
    Perhaps most frustratingly, Scintilli doesn't have as much of a sense of continuum as the aforementioned trilogy--which is something that any good album should have.
  7. Sep 28, 2011
    58
    Scintilli is a disappointingly static record from a duo of born tinkerers.

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