Elysia Crampton's new self-titled record, called an album but running for less than 20 minutes, is an impassioned refusal of minimalism, which influences electronic music as much as furniture design. With its discordant clash of samples, drums, synths and guitars, it calls notions of taste into question by emphasizing dissonance rather than taming it.

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Elysia Crampton’s new self-titled album, her fourth since dropping the E+E moniker, is a tightly-controlled, affectively capacious accumulation of sound that communicates beyond speech.

It’s ... an album which, considering it’s under 20 minutes long, makes a very full statement – one which cements Crampton’s status as an exciting and wholly unique force.

On her fourth album, Elysia Crampton continues staking out an anti-colonialist conception of time. It blooms from big, propulsive drum patterns while conjuring a sense of profound loneliness.

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DIVA EXPERIMENTAL F-- oh wait-

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forgettable (★☆☆☆☆)

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EDIT- upon relistens I have discovered that this is literally a masterpiece, every track is great

Insanely creative deconstructed club and left-field Latin electronic album. a little rough around the edges but in a good way. All of the tracks kick ass, with the exception of the second track which unfortunately doesn't have the same hypnotic repetition that worked on the other tracks for me, and it becomes a little stale after a while. Besides that, the other tracks create these lush ... read more

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