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Reality Testing

Lone

Reality Testing

Sixth album of hip-hop and house from Nottingham-born producer Matt Cutler

ADM rating[?]

7.4

Label
R&S
UK Release date
16/06/2014
US Release date
01/07/2014
  1. 9.0 |   Exclaim

    This is Lone's best work to date, and one that shows it's possible to keep evolving while holding onto a strong sense of identity
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  2. 8.6 |   Earbuddy

    Reality Testing is the perfect album to sit back and ponder about the wonders of life and the universe during that solitude
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  3. 8.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Deftly lacing Detroit house, neo-rave, hip-hop and a neon laundry list of other styles into bewilderingly creative tracks
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  4. 8.0 |   DIY

    He manages to stand out as a producer constantly in front of the pack
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  5. 8.0 |   Fact

    Where in the past he’s often been a little too thorough in this respect (many of his albums are exhaustingly monotone), here he manages to find diversity within the unity
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  6. 8.0 |   NME

    An album that is both intriguingly new and gorgeously listenable
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  7. 8.0 |   All Music

    Altogether, the album is suited more for background listening or a stroll through a sun-bleached cityscape
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  8. 8.0 |   Pitchfork

    Reality Testing stands as one of the year's best, most luxuriant, and accomplished electronic albums
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  9. 8.0 |   Q

    One of contemporary electronica's most gifted and distinctive sonic manipulators. Print edition only

  10. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    A well-rounded and ambitious piece of modern dance music
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  11. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    An album whose headline proposition is new, despite the ageing origins of its component parts
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  12. 7.0 |   The Quietus

    It's a fine and enjoyable listen, and it's certainly Lone's most consistent album to date, but at times it can't help but feel slight
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  13. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    Lone has enough gems up his sleeves to balance out the sleepier tracks
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  14. 6.0 |   Crack

    It’s peaceful and pleasant throughout, but on the back of such a far-out record as Galaxy Garden it feels drained. At times it sounds detached, even lonel
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  15. 6.0 |   Clash

    When it hits home, ‘Reality Testing’ more than justifies Lone’s tag as one of the most flexible, dextrous producers in the game
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  16. 5.8 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Reality Testing, then, pushes into new territory so well that it erases the possibility of its existence as a one-time distraction, and its few major successes lead to expectations of a more unified version
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  17. 5.0 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    A timid, harmless exercise in jumbled influence and pleasant sounds that fail to be anything other than mildly amusing
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