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  • Summary: The debut electronic release for the Kurt Wagner project features Lambchop members Scott Martin and Ryan Norris.
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  • Record Label: Merge
  • Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Club/Dance, Indie Electronic, IDM
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  1. Mojo
    Sep 18, 2015
    80
    This is serious... and seriously good. [Oct 2015, p.89]
  2. Sep 18, 2015
    70
    It's a digital landscape where a very human pulsebeat lurks below the surface, and HeCTA's debut is an experiment that works remarkably well on its own terms.
  3. Uncut
    Sep 18, 2015
    70
    It's an immersive and emphatically pulsing ride along Detroit techno lines. [Oct 2015, p.77]
  4. Under The Radar
    Nov 12, 2015
    70
    The Diet is an economical, yet lovely, collection of bouncy dance beats, idiosyncratic vocals, and polished synths. [Nov-Dec 2015, p.77]
  5. Magnet
    Sep 22, 2015
    65
    It's pretty weird. Not necessarily any weirder than your average Lambchop record, although it is, for the most part, considerably less gorgeous. [No. 124, p.57]
  6. Sep 18, 2015
    60
    The faster, rhythmic tracks are less convincing, though they can excite on occasion, but it’s this mish-mash of successes that make the album jar, and not in the way HeCTA would have desired.
  7. Oct 19, 2015
    60
    If it doesn’t quite hang together as a complete album, The Diet demonstrates that, as ambivalent as they are about the modern world, Wagner and company are comfortable and more than competent at operating within it.
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