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Varmints

Anna Meredith

Varmints

Debut full length release from the London-based composer and electronic musician who is a former composer-in-residence with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

ADM rating[?]

7.8

Label
Moshi Moshi
UK Release date
04/03/2016
US Release date
11/03/2016
  1. 9.0 |   musicOMH

    It’s a marvellously un-sobering boisterous beast of a record, and a sparkling début
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  2. 8.4 |   Pitchfork

    Varmints is a knockout, the kind that makes you see cartoon stars
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  3. 8.3 |   Pretty Much Amazing

    Varmints displays both extremely well crafted instrumentation, and an overwhelming creative freedom
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  4. 8.3 |   Earbuddy

    This is avant-garde music with none of the pretense but all of the skill, ambition and passion, just as it should be
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  5. 8.0 |   Q

    Visceral, cerebral utterly lovable. Print edition only

  6. 8.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    Meredith manages to cloak high-minded experimentalism in playful pop sensibility
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  7. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Meredith consistently does a phenomenal job of blending her concert hall ambition with a more mainstream musical sensibility
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  8. 7.0 |   Beardfood

    This is a sophisticated, challenging, incohesive album, created with the mind more than the heart
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  9. 7.0 |   Spectrum Culture

    It’s fantastic to have music of that caliber making its way into the world
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