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Thomas Inskeep: Is there life after trip-hop? I guess, if you still like trip-hop 20 years later.
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Anthony Easton: This is so delicate it falls apart before anything really aligns.
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Alfred Soto: Like every FKA Twigs release, I’m waiting for the stars to align and for me to fall in love with this synthesized diffidence.
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Patrick St. Michel: On one hand, this is a nice example of reissued ’90s nostalgia (aka “we gotta make money somehow”) swinging the spotlight on to a lesser-known band — I had no idea who Lamb were until “We Fall in Love,” so that’s nice. Unfortunately, the song sounds a little too entrenched in that decade to make much of an impression; its all go-nowhere twinkles and a beat lifted from The Matrix.
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Will Adams: Things get really exciting when those live drums start elbowing their way through everything. Dark trip-hop was something I only brushed shoulders with in my youth; it’s nice to get another chance today.
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Micha Cavaseno: One day, world, provide me with electronic/rock hybrids I can care about. Show me people who aren’t using things that the pop world have already abused the shit out of. Grant me those who aren’t still mistaking Aphex Twin melodies or CocoRosie style vocals as anything other than sleep inducing. Present me with those who can demonstrate a desire to lose oneself in the digital sea, not just some weird slab of generic Myspace Music circa ’06 stuff that so many teens did with relative ease, making this seem so trite while some song that isn’t so non-existent nests within such tempests. Give me something that, y’know, is good.
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