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8.4
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Spectrum Culture
On his ninth studio album, Max Richter takes stock of life and the world, as he did 20 years ago on The Blue Notebooks, but with results that are more complex, more mournful and just as beautiful
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Irish Times
Strikes a pleasing equilibrium between music to admire and music to enjoy
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8.0
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8.0 |
Clash
I genuinely mean that as a compliment: music doesn’t always have to be hard work, and Richter’s latest offering, ‘In A Landscape’, feels like the opposite of work
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7.3
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7.3 |
Pitchfork
The German composer reflects on his many years of music-making with a subtle, melancholic suite of songs that looks back to move forward
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7.0
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7.0 |
Uncut
Pure electronica, like the understated “Only Silent Words” and viscous “A Time Mirror (Biophony)”, is appealingly reflective too, but often one yearns for the unexpected, which “A Colour Field (Holocene)”’s slowly developing melody and a series of “Life Study” vignettes fortunately provide. Print edition only
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6.7
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Spin
Giving examples of polarities that could be reconciled, Richter has pointed to the electronic and acoustic. Still, friction exists. In a Landscape contains some of Richter’s best work—perhaps he’s hoping for us, in learning to love the record’s less successful parts, to reconcile ourselves
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