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Nothing Else

Lorn

Nothing Else

Dub, techno and IDM and more on producer Marcos Ortega's debut full-length for Flying Lotus’s Brainfeeder label

ADM rating[?]

6.6

Label
Brainfeeder
UK Release date
15/06/2010
  1. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    There’s a spine-tingling intensity to Marcos Ortega’s beats. His debut is mood- setting music that conjures up menace, eeriness and doomy drama
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  2. 8.0 |   BBC

    A hot album this most certainly is – hot in the sense of being so very now ... and in terms of just how caustic some of these compositions are on the synapses
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  3. 7.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    The soundscapes are mesmeric in their seething intensity and the heavy, harsh techno/dub beats are to the rhythm of a creeping neurosis
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  4. 7.5 |   Pitchfork

    With every listen, Nothing Else becomes many things, including a crowd-pleasingly auspicious debut in a scene that could use more of exactly that
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  5. 7.0 |   Blurt

    Packaged in a minimal black slipcase, Nothing Else's noirish instrumentals are sonically just as zipped-up as the jacket suggests
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  6. 6.0 |   Culture Deluxe

    Lorn is undoubtedly at his best when he is experimenting with his sound; striving for the interesting. Unfortunately these are not regular enough; Nothing Else tends to feel like a collection of detached beats that would be more suited being in the background than given direct attention
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  7. 6.0 |   NME

    As synthetic strings are layered over militaristic, Timbaland-style drum rolls and treated vocals seep through despondent boom-clack there’s a sense that the drama is congealing into turgid sentiment
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  8. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

  9. 5.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    The sonics that Lorn has selected struggle to capture any nuance of originality, ultimately sounding like it's all been done before
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