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9.0
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Crack
Despite offering up some of Herndon’s most accessible work to date, Platform retains a crafted, academic feel; a focused set of studies carefully dissecting their respective subject matters
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9.0
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Uncut
It feels like a galvanising challenge to Herndon's peers to embolden their ideas, broaden their horizons and push on into an undiscovered continent of sound
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9.0
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Exclaim
It's always drifting, skilfully, from challenging noise to fragmented affection in the most beguiling way possible
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9.0
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musicOMH
This is very much an album that feels necessary right now – one that packs a political punch without being didactic or evangelical
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9.0
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Spectrum Culture
Post-apocalyptic nightmares you can dance to
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9.0
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The Quietus
It wouldn't take much to over-praise those who attempt to innovate. But this album feels genuinely new
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8.9
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Earbuddy
This is an essential listen for anyone seeking to sonically explore the digital age we currently live in
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8.7
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Pitchfork
Platform may turn out to be the most thought-provoking experimental electronic music release of the year
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8.6
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Paste Magazine
Those who break through the surface, will understand this album for being the important, temporal work that it is
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8.5
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The Line Of Best Fit
It’s the plethora of new directions pushed in that makes this such an engrossing, worthy follow-up to Movement
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8.0
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The Music
Herndon’s talent for extracting unforeseen channels of depth from silicone-based technologies suggests the emergence of an extraordinary talent
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8.0
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NME
Sparkling, electronic pop that twitches like a corrupt video file, her voice fractured into glinting melodies
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Drowned In Sound
At once Herndon’s most accessible and most adventurous record, this is digital age avant-garde sound art put through a pop prism, and it’s all the more exciting as a result
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8.0
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The Guardian
Banger-free, perhaps, but gloriously avant garde and fiercely inventive
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8.0
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The Irish Times
Thrilling sweeps of often playful but always engaging electronic pop
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The Skinny
Holly Herndon’s second full length doesn’t so much require an open mind as is does a complete recalibration of one’s auditory perception
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8.0
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Q
Always engaged and engaging, the questions it raises never merely academic. Print edition only
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The 405
Herndon's interrogation of our relationship with computers and the synthetic world deserves to heard and understood
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7.5
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Consequence Of Sound
It’s not entirely a crutch, but Herndon does manage to use technology to pull out the multitudes her lilt is trying to express
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7.0
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Loud And Quiet
From opener and recent single ‘Interference’, ‘Platform’ feels simultaneously fresh and yet part of a classic electronic lineage
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7.0
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No Ripcord
It will be interesting to see how Herndon's music will come to be regarded in a decade or two; even if this record isn't perfect, it's clear that she will become an influential figure in high-brow electronic music
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7.0
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Rolling Stone
Everything about this finely wrought yet diabolically chaotic album feeds a theme: The more we try to manicure reality, in life and online, the messier it gets
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7.0
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The Digital Fix
With one heel in the art world this isn't always the easiest listen, but for those who like their pop to be a bit more cerebral, Platform is a step in the right direction
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Tiny Mix Tapes
It will take us awhile to get our minds and bodies around the sounds of Platform, while I’m sure Herndon is already feeling her way toward more radical ends
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7.0
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Spin
Somber and hopeful, bleak and bountiful, it’s an appropriately uneasy document of all the terrible and breathtaking possibilities of a not-so-distant techno-future
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6.0
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PopMatters
In its least engaging moments, Platform feels more like a homework assignment geared to some equivocal set than an album. In its better moments, it’s electronic music for the fourth-dimension
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