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8.0
4806
8.0 |
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8.0
4807
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
He has previously created album-long moods, but Totems Flare represents a shift in emphasis to standout elements, tiny hooks. He may be pushing boundaries and himself less urgently than before, but in doing so he’s made his most palatable and varied record to date
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7.0
4805
7.0 |
The Observer
The opening tracks seem designed to move bodies. Everything goes nicely haywire at the midpoint; then the mood becomes more reflective
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7.0
4809
7.0 |
No Ripcord
As a workout album and an exercise in sustained groove, Turning Dragon was basically flawless, though Clark probably figured that after pulverizing us for the better part of an hour we’d finally had enough. And so he takes it back a little, pitching Totems Flare somewhere between his last two records as far as the beat-to-melody ratio goes
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7.0
4810
7.0 |
The Quietus
Totems Flare is no perfect album - it has a few lapses in interest, some minutes lost to foggy ambience. But then, electronica, for all its one-hit blogger-darling wonders etc., must be one tricky genre to nail in album form: and Clark does make a valiant stumble towards said perfection with all his little gold-plated imperfections in hand
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6.0
4804
6.0 |
The Irish Times
Clark’s knack for going off the deep end may not be to all tastes, but those looking for an electronic producer with a fondness for pushing the bass will find much to savour here
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5.9
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5.9 |
Pitchfork
He has his go-to tricks: His specialty is the cataclysmic anthem, cobbled together from homemade break beats, glitchy jags of Euro- and acid-house, pockets of concussive noise, honeycombed synth lines, and contoured masses of distortion, all piled up in lunging heaps of coarse texture
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