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Kid B? 8/10 Apparently largely recorded during the same sessions as Kid A, and released only a year later, it has always been hard to divorce Amesiac from its predecessor and look at it on its own terms. It was suggested at the time – and repeated in the Amazon review – that this was [...]

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Overland But Underwater 7/10 Kelpe sculpt the kind of dense, no-nonsence electronic soundscapes popularised by Warp stalwarts Boards of Canada. Whereas BOC have come to sound like a parody of themselves, heirs-apparent Kelpe revisit the BOC template without the restraint and obsessiveness displayed by their forefathers. ‘Sea Inside Body’ is a massive, cavernous album awash [...]

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Not enough Notwist 6/10 13 and God is a seemingly unlikely collaboration between indietronic Munich crew The Notwist and avant-rappers Themselves of the Anticom label. However, if you are expecting to tune into the bittersweet glitch-pop of Notwist’s ‘Neon Golden’ you will be severely dissappointed. If you are familiar with the dense, cerebral mutterings of [...]

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Shock waves 7/10 Minotaur Shock’s second full-length will surely raise his reputation to the level of some of his more overrated peers, namely Four Tet and Manitoba, both of whom seem to have been unjustly hogging the electronica limelight for the last couple of years. ‘Maritime’ take a naval theme as its core imagery but [...]

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Modest mouse 6/10 Mouse on Mars, as the name suggests, often lean towards the cartoonish, anarchic end of electronica, with a tendency to push the envelope of effects and production rather than seek out more emotive content. A lot has been made of the use of vocals on this record but this is hardly something [...]

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