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Mar 12, 2012Ssss is absorbing techno to listen to and proof that well written music outscores clever production tricks any day of the week.
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The WireApr 18, 2012They actually have something fresh to express. [Apr 2012, p.62]
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Mar 26, 2012This is music that transcends the detached nature of its making.
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Mar 12, 2012It's nevertheless a hugely enjoyable ride, Clarke and Gore's duelling synths creating an entirely instrumental soundtrack to the sci-fi movie playing inside your own head.
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Mar 12, 2012One of the standout albums of 2012 so far. Tremendous stuff.
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Mar 12, 2012The end product is stern, frigid and heavy minimalist-techno, which also happens to be pop as ...: urgent, impatient, sculpted, immediate, and incident-packed.
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Mar 12, 2012Tremendous stuff.
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Mar 12, 2012A stern but playful combination of caustic menace and bright hooks.
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Mar 12, 2012The most potent and inventive electronica album I've heard in ages, a masterclass in punchy bleepscaping right from the low-register throb that opens "Lowly".
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Apr 3, 2012Despite suffering from flatness, the album is an enjoyable enough romp and in its almost naïve purity, it is endearing.
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Mar 22, 2012Adjust to it being low-key, sometimes background music, and SSSS won't be leaving the average synth pop fan's headphones anytime soon.
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MagnetMar 20, 2012Completists will be sated - as they invariably are - by this fun, beat-happy collection. As for the less fanatical fans, caveat emptor: This is a return to the primitive.[No. 85, p.60]
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Mar 14, 2012Ssss may not be the album expected by longtime Depeche Mode fans, but for those who still appreciate mid-tempo techno, the vinyl is definitely worthy of coveted crate space.
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UncutMar 12, 2012The dominant flavor is deliberately faceless and club-friendly electro, but the highly finessed sonics and subtle attention to detail emerge over repeat listens. [Apr 2012, p.88]
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Mar 12, 2012Ssss is a modest, genially impersonal effort: 10 instrumental tracks that don't flaunt their authorship.
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Mar 12, 201210 tracks of the kind of fierce, instrumental, no-bullshit techno that was as left-field popular in 1988 as 1998 as 2008. It's often witty, with a kind of robots-running-amok charm, and always attention-grabbing, at least in small doses. But friendly it ain't.
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Q MagazineMar 16, 2012They've still got the moves. [April 2012, p.106]
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Mar 15, 2012Regardless of your perspective, it's a solid "pretty good".
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Mar 13, 2012The New Wave equivalent of the Rocky/ Apollo rematch at the end of Rocky III.
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Mar 12, 2012The analogue synths and electronic squelches could have boomed out of a darkened club at any time in the last two decades, but repeated listens reveal expertise with a sense of fun.
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Mar 12, 2012It feels like a natural progression from synthpop into more hard-edged material and robust pop sensibilities shine through amid the bleeps and filthy basslines.
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Mar 30, 2012Through headphones, Ssss lacks proper punctum. Through speakers, it fails to infect.
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MojoMar 23, 2012There's no hallmark of originality or pushing envelopes, nor any sense of collaboration between two distinct talents creating more than a sum of their parts. [Apr 2012, p.94]
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Mar 15, 2012Nothing on this album is new, nor is it a fresh take on over-tread electronic music ground.