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May 5, 2015Sprinter crackles and explodes, with a dynamic range that’d make Steve Albini blush.
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May 1, 2015It’s a powerful start to an album where power is par for the course.
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May 14, 2015Ellis’s production creates little tornados of reverb and percussion to surround Scott’s voice; the song gains sinister power from its slow, anxious simmer and its carefully chosen mini-explosions.
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May 15, 2015Sprinter is a vital album.
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May 12, 2015Each song works on its own terms, but many of the songs don’t seem to share terms.
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May 18, 2015It all adds up to an emotionally gruelling record that’s patently not intended for passive listening. But it’s an album that’s worth steeling oneself for.
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May 18, 2015Sprinter combines the raw energy of Torres’s 90s forebears with modern minimalism; the result is captivating.
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May 15, 2015Sprinter is a bruising, brilliant record from a singular talent. It won’t soothe or placate. It’s all teeth.
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May 15, 2015Sprinter manages to be defiant at its most minimal: she may not have made a fully realized masterpiece yet, but she’s staking-out the place between noise and silence where a masterpiece will be built.
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May 7, 2015Scott fully inhabits her loudest moments by inching towards post-rock and synth-rock.
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May 5, 2015These are songs that mostly get to the heart of the matter with open-hearted directness, and in balancing the coarse with the refined there’s a clearer sense of what Scott wants to find even if she struggles to understand the conditions that affect her most deeply.
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May 1, 2015An album that frequently feels to be about growing pains, Sprinter may, like its predecessor, not quite be Mackenzie Scott's defining moment. All the same, it shows enough promise that we should take that as a profound positive. [May 2015, p.68]
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May 1, 2015Although Sprinter is a singular vision, it won't help rid her of the PJ Harvey comparisons, proving Torres to be musician unafraid of comparison, but even less afraid of compromise.
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May 12, 2015Sprinter, her second album, confronts relationships past and present, in songs that sound bravely open, even if it’s not immediately clear what’s on her mind.
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May 5, 2015Those who go along with her for the ride will likely connect strongly; Sprinter is not for passive listening.
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May 5, 2015She recorded the set in an old children's nursery in rural England with co-producer Rob Ellis (PJ Harvey) and Portishead guitarist Adrian Utley, who help give her steely reflections a ghostly vibe.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 36 out of 43
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Mixed: 4 out of 43
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Negative: 3 out of 43
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