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Mar 31, 2017Temple Of I & I is the most rounded and enjoyable album of theirs to date.
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MojoFeb 21, 2017The real star is Kingston MC Racquel Jones. [Apr 2017, p.99]
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Feb 13, 2017The trippy beats, swirling echoes, and reverb-heavy grooves we expect and love are spiced up with enough cultural stylings to keep it fresh and topical and as imaginative as the ultra-cool cover art.
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Feb 9, 2017Generally, The Temple of I & I is another satisfying Thievery Corporation affair.
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Apr 26, 2018The album is very cleanly produced, though at times it has an unfortunate tendency to become ignorable rather than interesting, Guidance and La Force De Melodie with LouLou Ghelichkhani being the chief offenders. However, the beat switch-up in the middle of Music To Make You Stagger--which turns it from a chilled dubby number to something approaching drum and bass--is very enjoyable, as are the chilly textures of Water Under The Bridge with frequent collaborator Natalia Clavier.
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MagnetFeb 14, 2017It's a smooth-sounding work you can easily imagine serving as the soundtrack at your favorite hip urban restaurant or retail establishment. [No. 139, p.61]
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Feb 9, 2017Too sleek to be real, The Temple of I and I sounds less like Jamaica than the music on the Virgin flight you might hear on the way there.
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Feb 9, 2017If anything, the defining factor on The Temple of I & I is that it's their most formless record to date.
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Feb 9, 2017Alas, The Temple of I & I, does not hit the high benchmarks of prior quality. Very much a Thievery album in its own right, with the tropical rhythms alongside the DC-based musicians approach to studio-dub, the LP falls short of the classic peak moments of the past.