Autechre Guitaris elegant and crystalline, a set of fascinating miniatures composed of unexpected links and gaps. It's as confounding and crafted as an Escher staircase. [Mar 2025, p.47]
Kamaru expertly composes in a broad field. The sounds he favours are expansive on their own, but together they narrate an impossibly vast space, offering a lingering glimpse into the composer's ability to work within constraints. [Mar 2026, p.52]
The result is a genuinely experimental record, with more than a dash of cheerful craziness. .... The intonation may not be classically perfect, but this is the timbre he wants, and the saxophone can party over a gleeful Latin beat. [Mar 2026, p.68]
A Short History Of Decay is a stirring suite of studiosculpted alternative rock that jettisons most of their heavy music influence while finding new routes to scoured ears amid plumes of dreampop drift. [Mar 2026, p.60]
Glenn's rich, wordless vocal melody becomes a trellis for the winding vine of Elizabeth's vibrato as she sings the arc of a blooming romance. The mood is joyfully bittersweet, basking in the glow of a shared life which, like all living things, must end. [Mar 2026, p.49]
The result is a dreamy potion of cascading stringwork and ethereal song, a soothing, otherworldly balm, grounded in ancient tradition but partly inspired by modern tragedy, as the album title suggests. [Mar 2026, p.53]
