Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Mojo
    Jul 24, 2014
    80
    Sometimes, the abiding mood is one of grand interstellar drift, an ancient exhausted spaceship cruising through deep space, leaving rippling waves of a strange blank intensity in its wake. [Jul 2014, p.95]
  2. Uncut
    May 16, 2014
    80
    Five long pieces allow for the tussle of improv. [Jun 2014, p.71]
  3. May 16, 2014
    80
    It is certainly worth investing raw, unprocessed time in exploring.
  4. May 27, 2014
    74
    Together, this trio excels not just at the expected but also delights in the quest to find a common vernacular amid multiple musical languages. That’s the challenge and the charm of Shade Themes from Kairos, a record that minds borders only long enough to maneuver around them.
  5. May 19, 2014
    70
    Shade Themes from Kairos is striking in that it not only hosts a variety of tones and colors based on dynamics, textures, and yes, the illusory stretching of time, but it reflects a true collaboration by principals who are actually investigating what the possibilities of the latter might sound like were it actually possible.
  6. Magnet
    May 16, 2014
    70
    Get lost in this stuff and you won't find your way back out. [No. 109, p.52]
  7. Q Magazine
    Jun 17, 2014
    60
    This stands up as a decent album of far-out wandering in its own right. [Jul 2014, p.101]
  8. 60
    Hardly euphoric but with some real mastery in the guitar, not dissimilar to Body/Head, this is dark swell of analog experimentation will no doubt intrigue guitar geeks globally.

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