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Sep 21, 2012With Steam Days, Fake returns to the fuzzy melodies and subtle, static-laced gleam that marked not only much of his best early work but also his better remixes.
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Sep 12, 2012Steam Days should finally break Fake free of Boards of Canada's imposing shadow. Fake is for real.
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Sep 4, 2012It's certainly more nuanced and wide-ranging. It's all the better for it.
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Aug 31, 2012This is an extremely fine piece of work, another auspicious addition to the already impressive Border Community canon.
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Aug 29, 2012Plunge through this piece of technical mastery and don't forget to take your shoes off.
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Sep 4, 2012What holds this album back is a lack of direction and the vision necessary to pull his intelligent, melodic techno into a new musical landscape.
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UncutAug 30, 2012It's clear that if he wants to, he could easily command proceedings alongside his pals Walls and Four Tet. [Sep 2012, p.75]
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Aug 28, 2012It's managed that rarest of feats, a techno record with a heart.
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Aug 27, 2012Steam Days is a worthwhile--if slightly unseasonal--listen.
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Aug 27, 2012You could reasonably argue that this is Fake's most well-rounded record to date; the bigger question is whether such small refinements to such an established, well-trodden genre should merit attention from anyone other than diehards at this stage in the game.
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Q MagazineSep 7, 2012Ambient meditations and busy electro picaresques like Glow Hole add variety to a record that doesn't exactly reinvent the wheel but at least paints it in bizarre colours. [Oct 3012, p.98]
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Aug 27, 2012Midway through Steam Days, Harnser does dark pizzicato things befitting a 90s warehouse rave, while elsewhere, the analogue-melting-into-digital influence of Four Tet is palpable.
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Aug 27, 2012Steam Days is usually pretty, but it's also a snooze.