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Elysia Crampton Presents: Demon City

Elysia Crampton

Elysia Crampton Presents: Demon City

Second full-length release from the Virginia-based experimental electronic producer

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8.0

Label
Break World Records
UK Release date
22/07/2016
US Release date
22/07/2016
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  1. 9.0 |   The 405

    To inhabit Demon City is to navigate its airhorn stabs, its huayno and cumbia cultural psychogeography
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  2. 9.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    Demon City presents a private apocalypse, a world collapsing. But it also projects a way forward — utopias constructed transnationally, across gender, ethnicity, and even species, in the aftermath of violence
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  3. 8.2 |   Pitchfork

    Elysia Crampton's follow-up to her sumptuous debut American Drift, is a wonder of concision and represents another massive leap forward in her growth
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  4. 8.0 |   Crack

    Is it easy to listen to? No, but then again, Crampton’s work challenges the listener
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  5. 8.0 |   Spin

    By seamlessly incorporating disparate collaborations into the fabric of this City, Crampton summons a greater collective strength than they’ve exhibited on their own — and implies that, going forward, her muse could lead her anywhere, with anyone
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  6. 8.0 |   Resident Advisor

    It's not sound design for sound design's sake: it's what's required to bring the central drama to life
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  7. 8.0 |   The FT

    Elysia Crampton evokes a sinister underworld in which the only glimmer of hope is provided by the sounds of underground dance music, another variety of underworld
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