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Loggerhead

Wu-Lu

Loggerhead

Debut full-length album from the London-based artist Miles Romans-Hopcraft features guest appearances from Amon, Lex Amor and Léa Se

ADM rating[?]

7.8

Label
Warp
UK Release date
08/07/2022
US Release date
08/07/2022
  1. 9.0 |   All Music

    A special work, Loggerhead is among the most necessary albums of its time
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  2. 9.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    On paper all of this shouldn’t work as brilliantly as it does
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  3. 9.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    LOGGERHEAD is the product of a music obsessive skilled enough to work all of his favourite sounds onto one album, a crucial document of a special artis
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  4. 8.0 |   Crack

    Powered by artistic freedom and sense of urgency, this accomplished debut is an apt reflection of our times; an era marred by inequality, division and unrepentant greed that is inspiring art that is equally tumultuous
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  5. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    A vivid and expressive debut, built from the ground up using a multitude of sounds – chopped up, thrown together and sometimes made to fit despite the obvious dissonance
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  6. 8.0 |   Clash

    The versatile and genre-bending twelve-track project merges rap and heavy metal influences to produce a grungy, post-punk take on the sound of modern London
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  7. 8.0 |   Mojo

    On the likes of South and Broken Homes, Wu-Lu’s use of feedback and grungy squall becomes eloquent and expressive. Print edition only

  8. 7.8 |   Northern Transmissions

    It’s an album of songs, carrying on the vulnerable and empowered ethos of 90’s London music, but into the twenty first century
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  9. 7.3 |   Pitchfork

    On his first album for Warp, the South London musician mixes grunge guitars with drum’n’bass breaks and claustrophobic atmospheres, seeking uneasy catharsis.
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  10. 7.0 |   DIY

    The experimenting and freestyling that is so prominent on this album must be incredibly purging for the multi-hyphenate, but fails to create sonic continuity
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  11. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    The restless approach to instrumentation and vocal styles found across Wu-Lu's debut album are at once disparate but somehow coherent in its vision
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