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8.3
97262
8.3 |
A.V. Club
Mojave Desert, appropriately, feels like the end of a weekend retreat: restorative, over far too soon, and with its finer points already quickly fading from memory, but all in all, definitely worth doing again
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8.0
97285
8.0 |
Uncut
There is less self-indulgence and more inspired engagement with the album concept on shorter pieces. Print edition only
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8.0
97291
8.0 |
Mixmag
Not as immediately blissful as ‘Elaenia’, but a magical new direction nonetheless
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8.0
97250
8.0 |
Clash
Without the visuals and context, the record can become excessively meditative at times, yet at its finest moments it re-forms the uninhabitable vastness of the desert-space as a blank canvas in the listener’s imagination
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8.0
97253
8.0 |
The 405
By no means is this an album capable of changing the world, but rather, showing off what the world really has to offer
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8.0
97254
8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
Is as fluid and enveloping as the landscape itself, a mystical, spiritual and arresting nexus point between the natural world and sound
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8.0
97301
8.0 |
The Observer
Windswept space rock
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7.3
97252
7.3 |
Pitchfork
Sam Shepherd and his ensemble incorporate the vast, rocky landscape of the California desert into the very fabric of their ambient post-rock
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7.0
97251
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
It remains to be seen how this will fit into a canon with the rest of Shepherd’s environmental series, but he remains one of the most intriguing, thoughtful and intellectual new musical pioneers the UK currently has to offer
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6.0
97292
6.0 |
Evening Standard
Freeform work, with beautiful passages
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6.0
97362
6.0 |
Q
Embraces big space and big sound to moderate effect. Print edition only
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5.5
97826
5.5 |
Spectrum Culture
Not developed enough to make you want to revisit
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