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75

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  • Summary: This is the third full-length album for techno producer Rene Pawlowitz as Shed.
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  1. Positive: 12 out of 15
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  1. Aug 14, 2012
    80
    The result is skull-crushing, claustrophobic and wonderful.
  2. Aug 14, 2012
    80
    There is a comprehensive exploration of musical avenues and ideas, as well as a pleasing juxtaposition of an overarching concept and sound design.
  3. Q Magazine
    Aug 20, 2012
    80
    It's narcotic, claustrophobic and brilliant. [Sep 2012, p.98]
  4. Aug 28, 2012
    77
    It's the producer's most immediate album and tightest display to date.
  5. Aug 14, 2012
    75
    Crafted with worn elements of the electronic cannon, his third LP as Shed doesn't offer much that's fresh. Rather, it's nostalgia and recontextualization that drive this effort.... [Yet songs, I Come By Night, You Got the Look, and Follow the Leader] are all indicative of mastery.
  6. Oct 11, 2012
    74
    The Killer works slightly better than either of its predecessors as an album, with the promise of what is to come relieving the earlier stretches of some of their grimness. The gaseous (and Gas-eous) ambient interludes, too, are perfectly sequenced, offering soothing counterpoints to the album's most pummelling efforts.
  7. The Wire
    Dec 5, 2012
    50
    "STP3/The Killer," "Silent Witness," and "I Come By Night" are exceptions, however--somewhere along the line a spark's been snuffed out. [Oct 2012, p.67]

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