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9.0
17840
9.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Krell is astonishingly good at ... sonic sculpturing, prying and pulling at his R'n’B sprinkled ambience with a touch so delicate it’s almost as if all he had to do was coax the sounds out of a gem that’s been lying there all along
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9.0
21335
9.0 |
Clash
There just aren’t really the words to do this justice beyond watching someone’s hips shift r-right-right and l-left-left until the mp3 stops spinning...
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8.7
17835
8.7 |
Pitchfork
You can sense a few different strands of music from the last few years coming together with the sounds of an earlier era to form something new
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8.5
17836
8.5 |
The Quietus
With his voice creating such broad and imaginative drawn maps of sound, Love Remains is a record to get lost in
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8.5
17834
8.5 |
Bowlegs
This is the sound of R&B getting lost in the deep dark woods, and we love it
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8.5
17842
8.5 |
The 405
Honest and earnest music set against deceptively simple backings for a unique and haunting (maybe haunted) ride
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8.3
18572
8.3 |
Bowlegs
A bleakly beautiful album
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8.0
19725
8.0 |
Slant Magazine
Positions itself in the space between the communal and the solitary, the familiar and the brazenly novel, the super-sensible and the supa dupa fly
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8.0
24042
8.0 |
Uncut
Print edition only
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8.0
21163
8.0 |
BBC
It’s like hearing R Kelly in hell, or Fleet Foxes if they’d grown up on a diet of Ralph Tresvant and Al B Sure!
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8.0
17845
8.0 |
Spin
This debut is a different kind of soul music, as meditative as it is evocative
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8.0
18403
8.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
[They have] established with his chillingly evocative and powerful songs a lasting credibility that, thankfully, extends far beyond our notions of what is vogue
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7.0
18081
7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Most songs are driven by multiple layers of Krell’s high-pitched, Justin Vernon-ian croon and the far-off patter of a synth line or sample — and heavy on presentation
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7.0
19903
7.0 |
Prefix
Love Remains engages its listener best when Krell's influences are least present
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4.0
18097
4.0 |
Under The Radar
Let it be known: Love Remains is indeed ambitious. But the songs, arrangements, and production are so incredibly loose in form and structure that they nearly defy criticism
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4.0
17838
4.0 |
No Ripcord
Has no established coherence, disrespects the meaning of creating a full length from scratch by (reworking?) rehashing material, and frankly, relies too much on Krell’s scorching falsettos
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