Dysnomia

Dawn of Midi - Dysnomia
Critic Score
Based on 11 reviews
2013 Ratings: #150 / 1115
User Score
Based on 20 ratings
Liked by 3 people
August 6, 2013 / Release Date
LP / Format
- / Label
Experimental / Genre
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CRITIC REVIEWS

90
Drowned in Sound

An improbable triumph that transcends straightforward description, Dysnomia is simultaneously a jazz album unlike anything you’ve heard before and an accomplished minimalist electronic album…which…errr...contains no electronic instruments whatsoever.

90
Exclaim!

Dysnomia is a great listen. It strikes an unusual balance between the focused and the meditative, keeps the ears engaged for its duration, and suggests a compelling avenue for free improvisation by reinventing itself with a renewed focus on process and prolonged gestures.

82
Resident Advisor

What makes Dysnomia particularly satisfying is that it doesn't fall into the traps that other records on Erased Tapes do: a rarefied neo-classical tone, an over-emphasis on wafting melody over rhythm and timbre.

80
SPIN
Stellar through-composed jazz-funk-Afro-minimalism by acoustic piano trio at a loss for words but little else
80
Consequence of Sound

Very rarely does an album seem to adopt a skin of its own, breathing life outside of computer speakers and headphones. 

79
Pitchfork

The ultimate irony of Dysnomia is that by playing with musical restraint, they discover whole new avenues of sound that's focused on rhythm, dismantling jazz with the tools that built it. 

75
The 405
Such is the emphasis on the separate constituent parts, what Dawn of Midi have done is make acoustic music that sounds like it was made on a computer. A big give-away, however, is the analogue warmth that douses the album's rhythmic core.
70
Tiny Mix Tapes

Conceptually, the band has rendered a queer but inevitable inversion of influence on Dysnomia — they are playing acoustic music influenced structurally and tonally by automatic, electronic composition.

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Track List

  1. lo 
  2. Sinope 
  3. Atlas 
  4. Nix 
  5. Moon
  6. Ymir
  7. Ijiraq 
  8. Algol
  9. Dysnomia

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Added on: August 12, 2013