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Apr 10, 2012This album strikes an intriguing, if slightly schizophrenic, balance between gently meandering almost-psychedelia and the restless rhythmic activity of recent dance styles.
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Mar 29, 2012For all its referential qualities, this is a record that is confident in its own distinct character.
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Mar 27, 2012The result is honed and sophisticated, unique yet smartly referential.
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The WireApr 18, 2012It all adds up to a queasy--but pleasurable--kind of time-travel sickness. [Mar 2012, p.67]
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Mar 27, 2012The Host is a sun-blessed electronic album drawing from the now, as well as two decades ago, and that works well enough.
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Mar 27, 2012While it perhaps doesn't achieve all it sets out to, it is regardless an intriguing, immersive combination of old and new.
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Mar 27, 2012It's a series of vignettes and at its best it reminds me of amorphous copy/paste artists like Prefuse 73, musicians who wormed their way into a genre by nibbling at its edges.
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Mar 30, 2012Much like the surrounding semblance, densely concealed behind a name with clear sci-fi connotations, the music on The Host can be difficult to really get into.
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Mar 27, 2012Sounds drift in and out of the mix, but rarely in such a way that they have much of a lasting impact.
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UncutApr 6, 2012Sometimes beautiful, although an ADD-ish attention span means it occasionally comes off somewhat lacking in character. [May 2012, p.75]