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10.0
40711
10.0 |
Drowned In Sound
To call it album of the year at this stage wouldn’t so much be pre-emption as an actual understatement
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9.0
40498
9.0 |
Clash
‘R.I.P.’ is both an update on the bass explorations of restless Britain and perhaps a timeless thesaurus of blistered tones and ideas that younger producers will beg, borrow and steal from for years to come
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9.0
41488
9.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
Actress evokes the space of his recording with an old dub trope; much of the sounds from this album seem to come from a distant source, booming up concrete stairs and across the face of alley puddles
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9.0
48684
9.0 |
All Music
The majority of the album places Actress closer to the superbly creative, evocative, and mind-altering terrain inhabited by Oneohtrix Point Never
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9.0
49067
9.0 |
musicOMH
A remarkably thoughtful and creative work that has clearly benefited from a more personal and human compositional approach
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8.5
40640
8.5 |
Pitchfork
There's something almost flirtatious in the way he lets the sounds worm around in the dark, looking to hook up with something firm. When they do, it's both mechanical and mystical
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8.0
41550
8.0 |
Spin
Like the afterlife, R.I.P. promises a passage to infinity, one unsteady loop at a time
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8.0
42431
8.0 |
Rave Magazine
If you’re at all interested in contemporary electronic or abstract music, R.I.P. is a trip well worth taking
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8.0
40500
8.0 |
The Quietus
Where many of his earlier recordings thrived in creating a sense of barely controlled chaos, almost everything on R.I.P moves with an easy grace, and even its most abrasive and oppressive tracks are astonishingly texturally rich
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8.0
40501
8.0 |
BBC
It’s an album that envelops even as it blurs and drifts, its hooks no less insistent for their subtlety
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8.0
40624
8.0 |
NME
Something about them is essentially alien - yet, very probably, that is the source of their strange, uncanny power
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8.0
41195
8.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
A headphones album through and through; there’s too much subtlety to catch everything without them
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8.0
41232
8.0 |
The Irish Times
A record of singleminded ambition helped by a surefooted, über-confident, post-everything approach to what he’s doing
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7.0
40625
7.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
What begins slow and hazy, almost dream-like even, gives way to the almost industrial-like death crunch of Cunningham’s typical tape hiss and weighty bass kicks
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7.0
42496
7.0 |
PopMatters
What Cunningham has done here is taken sounds that are not unfamiliar in the world of abstract electronic music, and worked them into a continuous, coherent experience that can be enjoyed as well as appreciated on a number of levels
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7.0
43002
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
It’s the sound of a DJ just getting started after everyone's gone home
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6.5
40765
6.5 |
Beats Per Minute
Much of R.I.P skews closer to ambient music, submerging its techno, often 4/4 rhythms beneath layers of digital hiss and throbbing compression
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