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The Air Conditioned Nightmare

Doldrums

The Air Conditioned Nightmare

Second album of experimental indie pop from Montreal-based musician and video artist Arick Woodhead

ADM rating[?]

6.8

Label
Sub Pop
UK Release date
06/04/2015
US Release date
07/04/2015
  1. 8.5 |   Spectrum Culture

    There’s no mistaking the fact that he’s made some of his most danceable and most beautiful songs yet
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  2. 8.0 |   DIY

    A slightly more subdued affair, though there’s plenty of melodies within the chaos
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  3. 8.0 |   All Music

    Deeper digging reveals Woodhead taking hold of the confusion, conflict, and ugliness of the record and sculpting it into something compelling in a voice all his own
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  4. 7.5 |   Consequence Of Sound

    It’s a series of realizations filtered through an inquisitive, if slightly paranoid, mind. The truths might not be revolutionary, but every generation needs new messengers
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  5. 7.0 |   Exclaim

    Feels like another uncompromising work from the intriguing Woodhead, and in its wide-spanning sound, offers something to both long-time fans and new ones
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  6. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    It contains ideas squared and cubed into infinity, and has passages showing more creativity than a hundred lads with polished shoes and guitars could muster in a hundred month
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  7. 7.0 |   NME

    The slippery acid of 'Industry City' and woozy electronica of 'Closer 2 U' reveal the breadth of Woodhead's vision
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  8. 7.0 |   Beardfood

    A nice move, but not necessarily forward
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  9. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    A sprawling exploration of modern synthetic life through artificial drum sounds, synthesizers and Airick Woodhead’s hauntingly human voice
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  10. 6.7 |   Pretty Much Amazing

    Ultimately an experience as disorienting as the sensations and emotions that Woodhead describes, strangely beautiful one minute and aggressively ear-splitting the next
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  11. 6.0 |   NOW

    Has fewer traces of the experimental Montreal loft party scene Doldrums originally emerged from, but it's not quite accessible enough for big festival stages either
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  12. 6.0 |   Uncut

    After a promising start, the LP soon defaults to a brand of quirky, over-stimulated electropop. Print edition only

  13. 5.4 |   Pitchfork

    Woodhead seems to shed the world around him, examining finer aspects of his inner self. He's looking for the devil in the details, so to speak, and the music's effortless, unassuming composition mirrors his effort
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  14. 5.0 |   Under The Radar

    The record feels more like a notebook of unwhittled concepts than an assertive statement
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