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Manafon

David Sylvian

Manafon

Avant-garde experiments and ambient electronica on the latest offering from the 30-year survivor of New Romantic

ADM rating[?]

7.1

Label
Samadhi Sound
UK Release date
14/09/2009
  1. 10.0 |   The Irish Times

    An exquisite assemblage of musical styles, which finds the Sylvian at his most experimental yet.
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  2. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    ...in the album's 11-minute centrepiece, The Greatest Living Englishman, is devastating: every musical phrase feels strangled and thwarted
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  3. 8.0 |   Mojo

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  4. 7.4 |   Pitchfork

    It's the music that makes Manafon a marvel, a mixture of free-improvisation's moment-to-moment sonic epiphanies with Sylvian's molasses-slow kinda-sorta torch songs.
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  5. 4.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    It’s a sonically ambitious undertaking — and miles beyond what many of his peers in the late-70s post-punk scene are currently doing — but ultimately, the album gets lost in its own conceit
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