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Skimskitta is a beautiful album. It is warm and enveloping. It is full of shadows but flashes with brilliance. It is oblique, yet often familiar. It is intelligent, inventive and inspiring. And it is very hard to put into words.
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MojoAn unconventional beauty. [March 2003, p.114]
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The WireA fastidiously crafted and appealingly damp hour of digital earthsong. [#229, p.57]
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Skimskitta isn't particularly strong or potent, but it's relaxed and smooth enough to induce a very mellow, mild buzz.
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UrbSkimskitta is starkly personal, increasingly hermitic, resulting in only a handful of immediate rewards. [Mar 2003, p.94]
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Q MagazineMood music in extremis. [Apr 2003, p.110]
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This is an ambitious album that aims high but falls short.
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An hour of delicately portentous electronics that are not so much haunting as haunted, each sonic element sneaking upon another and spooking it out.
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Like label mates Aphex and Autechre, this all amounts to something of a tough listen, though it is tracks like "Sixnot6" and "Distracted2" which really reward the listener willing to wade through the bleak atmospherics.
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The albums beauty lies largely in its simplicity, but so too does its weakness.
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Skimskitta's refusal or lack of ability to move beyond sketchy hisses and glitches makes for a too sprawling, too unfocused affair.
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ChisLFeb 13, 2005Engaging,unusual and beautiful.Sounds different with every listen.