Shutting Down Here
by Jim O'Rourke
Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
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  1. Dusted Magazine
    Sep 2, 2020
    80
    O’Rourke sails these turbulent seas deftly, making small gestures laden with significance. It’s agonising and hypnotic, the kind of art that demands commitment to spend time with. Yet, while you’re immersed in it, it feels inescapable.
  2. AllMusic
    Aug 17, 2020
    80
    From its eerie beginning to its twilit end, Shutting Down Here's rotating and lapping elements are remarkably conversant with each other, at times evoking works like 1995's Terminal Pharmacy and at others nodding to his prolific output in the 2010s and 2020s in mysterious and poignant ways.
  3. Pitchfork
    Aug 17, 2020
    80
    Shutting Down Here never sacrifices the knotty complications that make his work far weightier than a mere genre study. This is a personal record, after all, and knotty might just be a big, welcome part of who Jim O’Rourke is.
  5. Exclaim
    Aug 17, 2020
    70
    A committed listen to O'Rourke's latest iteration reveals the piece to be understatedly eloquent, its movements and progressions restrained yet effective.
  6. PopMatters
    Aug 17, 2020
    50
    Yes, it's interesting – but it will leave most of those outside small academic circles feeling a little cold.

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