Sounding Lines
by Moritz von Oswald Trio
Metascore
57

Mixed or average reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
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  1. Spin
    Aug 14, 2015
    70
    Think Africa ’70 minus the choruses and sax solos. If that doesn’t sound heretical to you, the groove awaits.
  2. Pitchfork
    Aug 14, 2015
    63
    At 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.
  3. Resident Advisor
    Aug 14, 2015
    60
    There'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.
  5. AllMusic
    Aug 14, 2015
    60
    The 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.
  6. The Wire
    Aug 14, 2015
    40
    This 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]
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