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9.0
81057
9.0 |
Exclaim
It's certainly the pinnacle of West's career so far, and up there for electronic album highlight of year
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8.0
81058
8.0 |
All Music
Finds Rival Consoles limiting his palette in order to creatively push himself, resulting in what is easily his most cohesive, expressive full-length to date
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8.0
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8.0 |
PopMatters
Rival Consoles humanizes electronic music with his scintillating third LP
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8.0
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8.0 |
The 405
There are other parallels to be drawn with some of the electronic world's best-known innovators; Autechre, Aphex and Clark to name but a few
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8.0
81115
8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
Where his ‘Odyssey’ and ‘Sonne’ EPs set a fresh standard of subtle, slow-building heft, ‘Howl’ is their long-played culmination – a milestone of minimal atmospherics and pulsing, contemplative beats
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8.0
81187
8.0 |
musicOMH
It is the sharpness, leanness, and absorption in detail found on Howl that combine to make it a success
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8.0
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8.0 |
Spin
Sketches his corporeal electronic symphonies on piano and guitar before circuit-bending his synthesizers through the pedals
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7.7
81163
7.7 |
Pitchfork
Howl is impossible to ignore, and hard to forget
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7.0
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7.0 |
Gig Soup
West pours into his music to create the feeling of something which is more than just synth-electronica
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7.0
81054
7.0 |
Crack
From primal rhythms to doleful improvisations, the album follows from last year’s Sonne; and if the former is West’s vision of colour, then Howl is an exploration into a darker, more monochrome territory
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6.0
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6.0 |
Resident Advisor
Despite its shortcomings, Howl is a fine album for those interested in analog electronics and curious what can be done with them outside of a club environment
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6.0
81059
6.0 |
The Skinny
Howl doesn’t do immediacy, but neither does it need to; this is music to ponder to, to consider meticulously
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5.8
81056
5.8 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Howl comes from nowhere and goes someplace similar, so it just flows past, as many albums do
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