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Sport

Debut LP from electroclash producer Oscar Powell

ADM rating[?]

6.9

Label
XL Recordings
UK Release date
14/10/2016
US Release date
14/10/2016
  1. 8.1 |   Pitchfork

    The punk electronic music Powell makes is crude, queasy, sometimes shockingly ugly, and often quite funny, in a madcap, slightly threatening way. It thrills and it mystifies in equal measure
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  2. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    Powell has matched his high-concept buffoonery with a fittingly wacky record that tiptoes the line but never oversteps it
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  3. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    When music is as joyfully oddball as this, it’s worth the hurdles
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  4. 8.0 |   Exclaim

    Regardless of audience, this is one of the most interesting records to come out this year
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  5. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Although wrestling with Sport, at first, may prove to be a challenging affair, it rapidly becomes a wholly rewarding and thorough sonic work-out
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  6. 8.0 |   The Music

    Powell continues to fly in the face of clubland's universally appealing blandness
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  7. 7.6 |   Resident Advisor

    A staggering experience, even if it's all in your head
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  8. 7.5 |   The Quietus

    More a consolidation than a signal of major developments in his work
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  9. 7.0 |   All Music

    A confounding, often thrilling album of pieced-together samples and shorted-out electronics that nevertheless has a primitive groove coursing through its veins
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  10. 6.0 |   DIY

    When Powell pushes his boundaries further than they’re willing to stretch – such as on the grating bleeps of ‘Getting’ Paid to Be Yourself [Al’s ‘Kick Ass’ Mix]’, or the erratic jam-band sensibilities of ‘Her Face’, only the diehard Powell fan is going to find themselves not punching above their weight
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  11. 6.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    While there’s lots to admire within ‘Sport’’s lemony synths, thudding programming and staticky confrontationalism, an hour of this aggression is rather exhausting
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  12. 6.0 |   Q

    London producer plays post-punk-inspired games. Print edition only

  13. 5.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Maybe I’m missing the point in this, or maybe I’m not sarcastic enough to get it, or too much of a dweeb to get the reference points and the deliberate shonky warping, but in all honesty, it gave me a headache
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  14. 4.0 |   The Observer

    Sport sounds lost, neither serious enough for IDM connoisseurs, nor crass enough for the EDM mob
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