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Does it Look Like I'm Here?

Emeralds

Does it Look Like I'm Here?

New-age / ambient synthesizer experiments on the latest from the Cleveland-based drone / noise trio

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8.0

Label
Editions Mego
UK Release date
24/05/2010
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  1. 9.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Emeralds are continuing to challenge themselves, and their listeners with new sounds, and new ideas. In that respect, perhaps Editions Mego is the perfect place for this wonderful release
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  2. 9.0 |   Prefix

    Emeralds has made it to the big leagues of the experimental-music scene. The quality of the music contained within proves the band is more than worthy
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  3. 8.5 |   BBC

    A certifiable boon for all somnambulant bliss-seekers; swathed in sheer luminescent pools of joyous, amorphous analogue and crowned by diaphanous shards of brightly lit neon nimbus
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  4. 8.3 |   Pitchfork

    The way they set loops against loops, with super-fast pinwheeling oscillations buzzing out of control on top, turns their tracks into perpetual motion machines, gathering incredible force as layers accrue
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  5. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Disarmingly beautiful. Pastoral melodies gurgle from orderly banks of synths. Print edition only

  6. 8.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    Opening track "Candy Shoppe" is without a doubt the most instantly accessible song Emeralds have ever recorded, bringing to mind early Kraftwerk
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  7. 8.0 |   All Music

    All of it occupies a slightly uneasy borderland between ambient music and avant-garde experimentation, and all of it is well worth hearing
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  8. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    A single entity to get lost in, a refuge where everything is warm and cushioned and any concerns are blown away like tiny fragments of guitar within the gale force of ‘Summerdata’
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