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From Sleep

Max Richter

From Sleep

Latest release from the classically trained German-born British composer is an hour long offshoot from the original eight hour piece

ADM rating[?]

7.3

Label
Deutsche Grammophon
UK Release date
24/08/2015
US Release date
04/09/2015
  1. 9.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    This was written to be listened to, and to be lived. Don’t dream this away
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  2. 9.0 |   Spectrum Culture

    He has made something that can comfort grief, battle insomnia and allow the body to journey to strange new places. He has made the mundane celebratory
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  3. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    Suspended in a state of constantly pulsing transformation, the music becomes like translucent vapour in the night around us as our consciousness hangs by the slenderest of threads
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  4. 8.0 |   Uncut

    For such a relaxing piece, though, there's also a melancholy tot he minor keys and descending harmony lines, which elevates this epic above bland mood music. Print edition only

  5. 8.0 |   The Music

    An awesome feat of aural auteurship that breaks the fourth wall in a unique way
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  6. 7.0 |   Pitchfork

    It’s a place in which you can settle for a while, with or without a pillow, and emerge only when you are ready to rejoin the restive world
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  7. 6.5 |   Crack

    These are lush, glacially-paced movements that continually glide in and out of focus like fragments of half- remembered dreams
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  8. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    It’s a warm, slow-moving daydream with no sharp edges and a self-consciously hazy sound, as if recorded next door or underwater
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  9. 6.0 |   Time Out

    Never mind the cynics: sweet dreams are made of this
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Max Richter: From Sleep

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  • 1. Richter: Dream 3 (in the midst of my life) £0.99
  • 2. Richter: Path 5 (delta) £0.99
  • 3. Richter: Space 11 (invisible pages over) £0.99
  • 4. Richter: Dream 13 (minus even) £0.99
  • 5. Richter: Space 21 (petrichor) £0.99
  • 6. Richter: Path 19 (yet frailest) £0.99
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