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The Inheritors

James Holden

The Inheritors

Long-awaited second full-length release from the Devon-born electronica / techno producer, DJ, label boss and remixer, following his acclaimed 2006 debut

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7.7

Label
Border Community
UK Release date
17/06/2013
US Release date
09/07/2013
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  1. 9.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    The Inheritors’s muckiness, danger and unpredictability is a delight
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  2. 9.0 |   The 405

    Builds on his remarkable debut - it's even more ambitious in scope, grabbing the listener by the throat and refusing to let go; a 75-minute epic that works incredibly well as an album
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  3. 8.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    A damn fine collection of songs
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  4. 8.2 |   Pitchfork

    Holden's ability to wrangle a complex synthesizer isn't unique; his ability to make that skill seem utterly necessary, is
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  5. 8.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Music that you can’t help but hear as if you were a kid again
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  6. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    On The Inheritors Holden guides us from mood to mood, atmosphere to atmosphere, smoothly and naturally
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  7. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    A rich and vivid work that is as mysterious as it is compelling
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  8. 8.0 |   Uncut

    A fiercely original feast of experimental sound. Print edition only

  9. 8.0 |   Mojo

    The multi-sensory momentum ... is never lost. Print edition only

  10. 8.0 |   Clash

    This is the music of ritual, an electronic folk chimera of primordial pagan beats, ancient and timeless yet psychedelically futurist
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  11. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    It is beautiful, ethereal and organic, breathing with life and is as far removed from the clean overly produced dance music which he holds in such distain
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  12. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    An impressive, intricate meditation on the weirder corners of electronic music's history
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  13. 7.0 |   DIY

    A glorious mix of the human and machine
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  14. 6.0 |   The Observer

    At its finest – on the six-plus minute Gone Feral, say – this is unsteadily arpeggiating not-quite-club music
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  15. 6.0 |   Q

    When he gets it right it's superb. Print edition only

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