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Generally favorable reviews- based on 10 Ratings
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Positive: 7 out of 10
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Mixed: 0 out of 10
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Negative: 3 out of 10
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Apr 22, 2011One of the best albums of the year so far! Expansive yet profound, the perfect dark ambient album. Standouts include Forest of Evil (Dusk), Bardo Thodol, and Hashishishin Chant.
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Apr 21, 2011This is about as good as a dark ambient album gets, with a plethora of electronic and dub thrown in for good measure. Good, scary measure. I'm not sure if I'd consider it one of the best albums of the year, but I'm giving it a 10 to offset the reviews by people who've never listened to ambient before and need Eno in their lives.
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Apr 3, 2011I don't get it. I have listened to all the 'best of' new music from James Blake, Lykke Li, Destroyer, Nicolas Jaar and whilst this album scores highly on metacritic, i don't get it. I have tried to listen to it countless times but its too random. No structure. Rubbish actually.
Awards & Rankings
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May 27, 2011It's hard to scrape the sensation that there's something a little inadequate about Tryptych, even as immersive headphone sessions reveal new levels of depth within the productions.
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MojoApr 4, 2011Blending machine rhythms and subterranean beats with ghostly atmospherics, world music chants and groaning analogue disquiet they create a rich, unnerving sound that feels both modern and ancient. [Mar 2011, p.114]
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UncutFeb 25, 2011It's a heavy trip, with the exotic/erotic minimal techno of Ricardo Villalobos overlaid to intoxicating effect with the eerie hauntological manoeuvers of The Focus group. [Feb 2011, p.82]