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Venetian Snares

Traditional Synthesizer Music

Canadian electronic artist Aaron Funk's latest album, composed and live recorded entirely on modular synthesizers

ADM rating[?]

7.3

Label
Timesig
UK Release date
19/02/2016
US Release date
19/02/2016
  1. 9.0 |   All Music

    A sharp, thrilling experience, and easily one of Funk's most focused works
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  2. 9.0 |   Exclaim

    Fans will still recognize his inimitable approach to propulsive off-kilter rhythm and dissonant timbres, organized into fluid yet alien structures, but the sound is deeper, and its inherent joy all the more resonant
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  3. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    A welcome return to top form
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  4. 8.0 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    Unlike past efforts, this album is able to traverse from one end of the spectrum to the other without over-stepping the bounds of tolerability, be it of either tranquillity or squeamishness
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  5. 7.5 |   Beardfood

    A wonderful thing happens listening to a Venetian Snares album
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  6. 7.4 |   Pitchfork

    Feels not so much traditional as a refresh: a suite of music that is crafted and ferociously complex, but at its root a pure and primal thing, high on its own chaos
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  7. 7.0 |   Clash

    While the idea of the album might sound earnest, the music here still retains the normal amount of wry humour and ambivalence that has characterised the Venetian Snares back catalogue
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  8. 6.6 |   Resident Advisor

    Venetian Snares albums are usually tough and intense listens, but Traditional Synthesizer Music can be fuzzy to a fault. It lacks the internal turmoil that defines Funk's best music
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  9. 6.0 |   The Quietus

    It's Venetian Snares going back to the root of his influences by means of a longer-established medium
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  10. 6.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    The timbres of the modular synth, in my opinion, are dull, but that doesn’t mean that Venetian Snares hasn’t created interesting music from his machines
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