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Ambivalence Avenue

Bibio

Ambivalence Avenue

Intelligent dance music from Wolverhampton-based producer Stephen Wilkinson

ADM rating[?]

6.7

Label
Warp
UK Release date
22/06/2009
  1. 8.3 |   Pitchfork

    While Ambivalence Avenue is an excellent album by any measure, Bibio deserves extra credit for venturing outside of his established comfort zone. He began his musical career trying to emulate Steve Reich and Boards of Canada on no-fi equipment
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  2. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

  3. 8.0 |   No Ripcord

    The remarkable part of Ambivalence Avenue is the fact that despite its impressive diversity, the album seems to have a lovely cohesiveness to it. Somehow funk can sit alongside pastoral folk which resides next to hip-hop and it all seems like the most natural of progressions
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  4. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    It’d take some mad science to mix all of Bibio’s elements, old and new, into a sound as definitive as the one he established over his first five years as an artist, but Ambivalence Avenue is a great fresh start
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  5. 6.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  6. 5.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Leaves you wondering how anyone is supposed to have an emotional reaction to Ambivalence Avenue deeper than a mild admiration
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