The perfect fall track.
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Katherine St Asaph: Foreboding nocturnal stuff whose idea of portent is vague koans about control and whose idea of vocal portent begins and ends with Daft Punk — of course I’m into it. Could do with more omen, more and bigger creepiness, more Covenant maybe, more standing on a moonlit clifftop crumbling loud around you to we will be the life you’ve always wanted, but this will do.
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Micha Cavaseno: A slightly moldy serving of kitschy NDW-infected pap that serves to stretch and twist itself out from getting too particular.
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Anthony Easton: Ominous deathbots get lonely too.
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Will Adams: Dance music this dark is especially exciting to hear in 2014, a time where it seems like everyone on the radio is having the same fever dream of fist-pump positivity. “Skulls” is more nightmarish, hulking in place while granulated vocals float overhead like locusts. And as it keeps building, I’m invited more and more to move along, to become the monster.
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Alfred Soto: Computer World-era Kraftwerk hearing Taco’s “Puttin’ on the Ritz” mechani-shuffle and liking it.
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Brad Shoup: This reminds me of mid-2000s Ulver, with those timbres to pin you to the wall. But it’s a bit more ambient than that, declining at every turn to play up the clatter. Imagine what a really chilling Random Access Memories hidden track would sound like.
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Scott Mildenhall: This does not work as a single. As an intro, leading into the new version of “Monument”, perhaps it would, but in itself it leads nowhere. And yet they centre it around the possibility that “you wanna ride”! Is it an elaborate joke at the expense of the album and its antiquated approach to adventure?
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