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With Love

Zomby

With Love

Double-CD, 33-track release from the anonymous UK producer, covering dubstep, rave, drum'n'bass, hardcore techno, hip hop and every electronic genre inbetween

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6.9

Label
4AD
UK Release date
17/06/2013
US Release date
18/06/2013
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  1. 9.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    At a time when many electronic albums sound more like mixed sets than collections of songs, this expansive double album is all the more impressive, with its 33 abruptly separated songs holding the listener captive within Zomby’s edgy world for well over an hour
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  2. 9.0 |   All Music

    If there's any development, it's that Zomby has become slightly more impressive at referencing past sounds in dance music
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  3. 8.0 |   The Independent

    An after-hours, nocturnal experience
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  4. 8.0 |   Clash

    With its decade-sweeping delve into the rave, volume one is a truly outstanding work. If only Zomby had downed tools and stepped away. As it turns out, 12 out of 16 tracks on volume two make use of those recurring trap tropes
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  5. 8.0 |   Q

    Moving in ways that are hard to explain. Print edition only

  6. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    The taut but tension-filled tracks all breeze by in a cohesive, ethereal churn
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  7. 8.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    This beautiful mess of splatter-painted hi hats, creaking kick drums, and swooning synth patterns, as confusing as it may be, is something to behold
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  8. 8.0 |   The 405

    It's one of the most engaging albums you're likely to come across this summer. You're kept guessing in a way few artists have the skill or vision to execute
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  9. 7.9 |   Pitchfork

    The tension between Zomby's adoration for his heroes and his aberrant creativity fuels With Love, less a homage to the past than an intensification of it
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  10. 7.0 |   No Ripcord

    He may be happy to use stock reference points such as the rave siren so overused in todays music, but when the rest of his work that surrounds it is so engrossing this is forgivable
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  11. 7.0 |   DIY

    A flawed collection that is on a par with Zomby’s previous work but one that is minted in the producer’s unique persona
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  12. 7.0 |   Fact

    If someone compiles their favourite 12 tracks from it, they may well have their album of the year, but in its current state With Love is pretty far from a classic
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  13. 6.0 |   Mojo

    Over 33 tracks, With Love's blackout material is thinly stretched. Print edition only

  14. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    Paints a picture of an artist in his comfort zone; a one-time maverick who has started, at last, to sound somewhat predictable
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  15. 6.0 |   Spin

    The climax to years of activity in which new ideas were thrown around like volleyballs. Aside from its sheer heft, though, it's hard to imagine it converting anyone who doesn't already care
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  16. 6.0 |   NME

    Begs to be compared to ‘Richard D James’-era Aphex Twin. But that would be an overstatement of Zomby’s ability, and ‘With Love’ is too pompously curated and lacking in the empathy that fuels all great dance music to deserve the accolade
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  17. 5.0 |   The Quietus

    Indeed, while With Love is an ambitious and entertainingly composed undertaking, offering glimpses into Zomby’s varied inspirations, it can still be frustratingly piecemeal and somewhat self-indulgent
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  18. 4.0 |   Uncut

    The execution is consistently weak. Print edition only

  19. 4.0 |   PopMatters

    Listenable in the way a lot of middling electronic dance music is
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