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10.0
100401
10.0 |
Q
Career-defining masterpiece. Print edition only
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9.0
100091
9.0 |
Exclaim
The English producer's proclivity for irresistible hooks is delivered through a palette of strummed strings, wistful timbres and delectable breaks that make for a satisfying and evocative body of work
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8.0
99979
8.0 |
All Music
One of the most accessible, listener-friendly releases in the Four Tet catalog, but it still maintains the creativity and unpredictability that have always made his work stand out
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8.0
99980
8.0 |
The FT
Deep repetition exerts a hypnotic effect, synthesisers chime and non-electronic instruments from other musical cultures bring a sense of expansiveness
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8.0
99982
8.0 |
The 405
To say New Energy is a consolidation rather than a progression may seem damning with faint praise, but its palate is so substantial and nourishing that such slight ambition is peripheral
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8.0
99983
8.0 |
Pitchfork
New Energy is a wide-ranging album that connects the warmth of his early work to his latest club experiments
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7.0
100066
7.0 |
Resident Advisor
Though far from perfect, New Energy is one of Hebden's most intimate and personal albums, with all the idiosyncrasies that come with that
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6.0
99981
6.0 |
The Observer
What it doesn’t have is a great deal of tracks to pull you back, bar perhaps the insistent pulse and fluttering vocal samples of Scientists
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6.0
100531
6.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Casual listeners will like New Energy, but longtime fans will recognize it as part of a worrying trend in Hebden’s discography: each subsequent release of his has shrunk in scale, size and ambition
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