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9.0
42085
9.0 |
The Quietus
The results are nothing short of magnificent, producing a set of tracks whose fizzing surfaces are always disturbed by some new action just beneath
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9.0
48683
9.0 |
All Music
The addictive soundtrack to some kind of science fiction nightmare
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8.5
42597
8.5 |
Prefix
While the futurism still appears in the sheer construction of Halo's songs, the space on this album is not quasars and hyperdrive as much as it is physical: loneliness and emotional isolation
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8.0
43219
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Her voice is raw, uncorrected, unaltered, in order to create a 'brutal sensual ugliness'
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8.0
43612
8.0 |
Mojo
Beautiful, haunting, avant-garde electronic vocal pop. Print edition only
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8.0
42086
8.0 |
The Irish Times
Halo may have displayed her smarts on previous EP and cassette releases, but nothing in her back catalogue matches the widescreen, fully realised and confident sounds displayed here
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8.0
42087
8.0 |
The Skinny
At times it is a challenging listen, but Quarantine shows Laurel Halo's work to be something of a darker, more boundary-pushing twin to the polished dream-pop of Grimes
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8.0
42089
8.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
I’m going to go out on a limb and call this an ‘important’ record: new territory being trod
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8.0
42270
8.0 |
The Guardian
The prettiness may seem surprising given the violence of the subject matter, but this is tempered by a growing sense of unease, and it grows in power with repeated listens
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8.0
42551
8.0 |
Pitchfork
By intricately arranging and shrewdly sequencing her C.V. on a micro scale, it's her best and most cohesive work to date
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7.0
42094
7.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Quarantine should be a humbling experience, but there’s a certain air of gravitas about the whole thing that makes it seem so much larger than life
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6.0
42092
6.0 |
NME
Less concerned with the tropes of olde world dance music, more fixated on gloopy post-club ambience
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6.0
43788
6.0 |
No Ripcord
She treats singing as synthetically as she does synthesizing, as an axis where feelings reshape into non-organic symbols, as factory-made forms of artificial flavoring
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