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All Music
Polymer is one of Plaid's most successful hybrids of organic and artificial sounds, matching its ambitious themes and concepts with enlightening music
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Uncut
It's rhythmic patterns and twisting beats are surprising throughout, making the record as unpredictable a voyage as the times we live in. Print edition only
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Q
Theirs is a cerebral electronica, characterised by slippery time signatures, off-kilter drum patterns and baroque flourishes. Their 10th album, Polymer, distills all these traits. Print edition only
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Exclaim
Now they can add ominous to their established repertoire of complex and simple
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PopMatters
By successfully tying the tracks to culturally relevant, apposite themes, Plaid's Polymer is one of their most strikingly accomplished albums to date
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The Quietus
On Polymer Plaid may have foregrounded a darker, discordant side to their production, but this has allowed for a much greater sense of cohesion and freshness in their work when combined with the lightness of touch that the duo are known for
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musicOMH
Plaid’s contemporaries from the early ’90s are in very different places now, with Aphex Twin incorporating styles footwork in his new releases and Autechre progressing further and further into uncharted terrain. This album, however, is from a duo mostly content to amble down memory lane
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Resident Advisor
There are melodies and some grand gestures, but the lack of tension and dynamics makes Polymer feel empty
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