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10.0
93712
10.0 |
A.V. Club
As complex a journey as Powers has ever taken the listener on, under any guise
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8.6
93713
8.6 |
Paste Magazine
It never veers too hard in one direction or the other, staying within a similar tingling middle ground where the best horror movies and thrill rides reside
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8.5
93673
8.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
It might not hit Dumb Flesh’s dancefloor highs but with decent headphones and a windswept night there’s points on here that are damn near-transcendental
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8.1
93960
8.1 |
Pitchfork
World Eater is suitable for casual noise fans who have some curiosity for extreme music and a decent threshold for pain
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8.0
93993
8.0 |
God Is In The TV
A testament to realising that less can be more, that pointed restraint can open up fertile creative avenues
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8.0
94165
8.0 |
Beardfood
The ebb and flow is thrilling
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8.0
94437
8.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
If it indeed captures anything, it’s an America being run in the image of Biff Tannen’s dog-eat-dog casino world from Back to the Future, Part II
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8.0
93808
8.0 |
The 405
It’s coherent, exciting, and strong, and it gives you an in-depth idea of how you can articulate experimental soundscapes with rough portions of sound that cause commotion
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8.0
93820
8.0 |
DIY
Like the evil twin of Clarence Clarity that joined a particularly nasty cult
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8.0
93866
8.0 |
Q
If World Eater has an ear for the end-times rave-up. Print edition only
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8.0
93688
8.0 |
Exclaim
It's a radical, adventurous exploration — and celebration — of the relationship between darkness and light
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8.0
93694
8.0 |
The Skinny
World Eater is ferocious and intense, but it's also thrilling and bristling with life – and it’s these contrasts that make it such a blast to listen to
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8.0
93695
8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
‘World Eater’ is a triumph. The jewel in its crown, though, is the superb ‘Rhesus Negative,’ an onslaught of percussive and vocal cut-ups that takes Boards of Canada’s Telephasic Workshop into a much more aggressive space
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8.0
93668
8.0 |
musicOMH
An album that will shake you senseless, eat you up and spit you out. And it’s worth very minute
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8.0
95084
8.0 |
Resident Advisor
If Dumb Flesh was a dance record about the fragility of the body, then World Eater is, perhaps, about the fragility of people. Power's frustration is clear
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7.7
93882
7.7 |
Gig Soup
World Eater is that rare record that oscillates from brutal to ethereal (sometimes over the course of one track) without ever feeling disjointed
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7.0
93667
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
He finds moments of calm, drift and uplift too, as he spins through his variety show of ideas which don’t quite fit for Fuck Buttons
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7.0
93788
7.0 |
PopMatters
Blanck Mass's World Eater is a humungous, terrifying slab of electronic noise
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7.0
93880
7.0 |
Earbuddy
Dark, robotic, and sinister: Benjamin John Power is back with another head-trip
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6.0
94488
6.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Reflects a landscape filled with violence, anger and darkness
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6.0
95033
6.0 |
Crack
Despite its impressive moments, World Eater seems like an experiment that left the studio too early
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6.0
93705
6.0 |
The Independent
Wreathed in loops and samples, swaddled in stacked vocal sounds, World Eater is former Fuck Button John Power’s response to the turbulence of 2016
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6.0
93708
6.0 |
The Guardian
Brutal noise with frequent sweet spots
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