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  • Summary: The first release for the artist better known as The Bug under his real name was influenced by the birth of his son and the subsequent life-threatening complications that followed.
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  1. The Wire
    Jun 20, 2019
    90
    Sirens is unlike anything produced under his other aliases The Bug, Techno Animal or Ice. It exists as a piece of sound art rather than a club record. ... Sirens is testament to the ability of sound and its manipulation to transcend language. [Jun 2019, p.60]
  2. Jun 11, 2019
    80
    This is a record which deserves your time and effort; it is not an easy listen and nor should it be. It is a dense and weighty work of art which examines the areas between life and death in which we shall all find ourselves. Kevin Richard Martin is making music about subject matters almost wilfully unconsidered by many due to the sheer terrors represented within their everyday realities. If you're human, then Sirens will resonate with you.
  3. Jun 11, 2019
    80
    Sirens is by far the most personal album Kevin Richard Martin has ever made.
  4. Jun 17, 2019
    80
    Sirens comes out as one of the most beguiling and frightening works of domestic horror ever committed to record.
  5. Jun 11, 2019
    78
    Sirens' darkness is matched by its delicacy.
  6. Jun 11, 2019
    74
    Sirens’ unrelenting nervous abstraction can be difficult to take over 14 songs, but perhaps that’s the point.
  7. Uncut
    Jun 11, 2019
    70
    Sirens may be the most acutely personal and deeply unnerving music Kevin Martin has ever made. [Jul 2019, p.30]
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