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- Summary: The fifth full-length release from the trio features Afro-beat drummer Tony Allen in place of Vladislav Delay.
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- Record Label: Honest Jon's
- Genre(s): Electronic, Experimental, Techno, Ambient Techno, Minimal Techno
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Aug 14, 2015Think Africa ’70 minus the choruses and sax solos. If that doesn’t sound heretical to you, the groove awaits.
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Aug 14, 2015At its best moments, Sounding Lines drifts in an intriguingly ambiguous space where each member invokes the genres they’re best known for playing while bending generously to accommodate their partners.
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Aug 14, 2015The highlights, unsurprisingly, occur when Allen is allowed to exert more of his power, heard in the darting/jabbing third and twisting sixth tracks. Those two tracks are worth the wait.
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Aug 14, 2015There's the occasional hint of another, more vivid album.... Elsewhere they often seem all too separate, like combatants squaring off in a strange, airless room.
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The WireAug 14, 2015This trio are rarely an ecstatic proposition, preferring the slow burn to the white flame, but in truth there's little heat here at all. [Aug 2015, p.54]