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In A Landscape

Max Richter

In A Landscape

The latest release from the classically trained German-born British composer features field recordings from his travels

ADM rating[?]

7.1

Label
Decca
UK Release date
06/09/2024
US Release date
06/09/2024
  1. 8.4 |   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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  2. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    Strikes a pleasing equilibrium between music to admire and music to enjoy
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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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

  6. 6.7 |   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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  7. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    NEW In a Landscape reconciles nature with humanity through lush soundscapes, and it feels like a revelation for newcomers to composer Max Richter’s oeuvre
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