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8.0
68217
8.0 |
Clash
Comes finished with anxiety, and understated footwork (‘Frontin’’), intelligent re-workings of jungle/hardcore breakbeats (‘Heart & Soul’, ‘Danger’), and lounge
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8.0
68570
8.0 |
Mojo
Lustman pens some melodic vignettes of considerable beauty. Print edition only
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7.0
68628
7.0 |
Fact
There are moments of sheer beauty and reckless fun all over this record, but there’s a looming question mark over whether or not listeners will feel motivated to pick their way through the expanse to enjoy them
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7.0
68262
7.0 |
Pitchfork
Brimming with imaginative potential
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7.0
68463
7.0 |
musicOMH
In The Wild has some super solid additions to any electronic music playlist but exploring it front-to-back is simply too much to handle
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6.7
68341
6.7 |
Pretty Much Amazing
Like the music itself, Lustman’s brilliance as a curator of sound comes in fits and starts
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6.0
68218
6.0 |
The Skinny
A searingly intellectual record, and although its purely tonal passages drift by somewhat forgettably, there are moments of white-hot brilliance
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6.0
68219
6.0 |
Time Out
Sporadically confused and absorbing: despite a handful of great moments hidden away, it’s impossible to shake the feeling that it just ain’t wild enough
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6.0
68220
6.0 |
The Irish Times
As hinted at previously, he has found a way to push bittersweet romance and heartbreak drama into the tracks
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6.0
68221
6.0 |
The FT
A sure ear for beat-making guides us through the patchwork
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6.0
68699
6.0 |
Uncut
The overall impression is of a record being padded out with hard-drive off-cuts. Print edition only
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6.0
68899
6.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Though it has moments of beauty and brilliance galore, they are sprinkled in amongst false starts and incomplete ideas
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5.0
68265
5.0 |
Rolling Stone
FaltyDL's signature clanky percussion and eerie vibe save tracks like "In the Shit" from becoming easy-listening, but it's not quite enough
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5.0
68273
5.0 |
Exclaim
The charm of the disconnected, breezy path that starts the album — seeming interludes punctuated by the odd story of a more solid, structured track — quickly wears thin
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3.0
70283
3.0 |
PopMatters
At its core, In the Wild lacks any sort of substance
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