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  • Artist(s): Paraorchestra
  • Summary: Composer Hannah Peel's latest full-length took three years to create and features Charles Hazlewood's Paraorchestra.
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  1. Positive: 3 out of 5
  2. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. Apr 13, 2022
    90
    An important component to the Paraorchestra’s practice is melding analogue, digital, and assistive instruments. The results, as heard across these eight ambitious compositions, are completely spellbinding. ...
  2. Apr 4, 2022
    80
    The Unfolding is an album with a broader purpose that conveys its egalitarian, inclusive message with discretion, confidence and superb musicianship. It succeeds in balancing the beautiful with the cerebral, simultaneously existing as both head and heart music.
  3. Uncut
    Apr 4, 2022
    80
    Like The Knife's opera about Charles Darwin, The Unfolding tackles the biggest themes in a way that's awed, never overwrought. [May 2022, p.32]
  4. 60
    Peel’s intentions are sound, the results are very pretty and the live shows will be great, but what ensues is still a modern classical-electronic crossover that relies too much on orthodox musicality to truly do its subjects justice.
  5. Mojo
    Apr 4, 2022
    60
    The Unfolding is an inventive and accessible mix of acoustic instrumentals and electronics with an elemental atmosphere. [May 2022, p.92]