Safe in the Hands of Love
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CRITIC REVIEWS
91
Yves Tumor’s latest album is a benchmark in experimental music. It is searing and borderless, music that is aware of oppressive confinement, and music with an intoxicating urge to be free.
90
For an artist who’s demonstrated a remarkable ability to evoke moods of melancholy and fear in his music, Safe in the Hands of Love thrives on its intensity and excitement, revealing a side of Yves Tumor that we’ve never seen blossom so fully like this before.
90
What pushes Safe in the Hands of Love beyond the producer's previous works is the emotion that the record transmits. No matter if the synths are harsh, or the rhythm section arrives with the perfect groove, this is a work filled with an emotive purpose, and it is that core that makes it such a wonderful listen.
90
This is a mission statement from an artist who knows that the trademark of their sound is not so much the sound itself, but its ability to take hold of the listener and bring them into the fold. It is the manifestation of a vision, now fully realised, projected to us from within.
85
Where Turmor's music normally thrives on chaos and unpredictability, here, he focuses on reigning in that unpredictability, and in the process, crafts some truly thrilling and engaging experimental pop music.
82
Yves Tumor joins the likes of Arca and SOPHIE at the vanguard of experimental pop.
80
Safe In The Hands Of Love is a fascinating synthesis of rock, plunderphonics, bass music and noise from an artist that remains stubbornly undefinable.
80
It is refreshing to hear someone so emancipated from the rules of genre.
75
Bowie often works best through subtlety, and that strength is not particularly amplified on Safe in The Hands of Love.
70
The album feels uneven, the result of too many sonic ideas with none taking precedence.
70
For as enjoyable as many of them are, Yves Tumor's pop tunes and comparatively experimental soundscapes don't really reinforce one another on Safe in the Hands of Love.
If Yves Tumor was truly an experimental artist before Safe In the Hands of Love, the only reason this album is experimental is because there’s simply no other genre it could be put into. Part noise, part alt-rock, part dream pop, Safe In the Hands of Love is a daring, genre-neutral catharsis of the emotions that come from lack of recognition and oppression.
Recently I’ve lost a lot of interest in new releases of music on this site. It feels like every time I visit a new album that is hyped up by fans or given a mercy 7, I find myself beyond disappointed. I just have gotten so bored of trying to find new experiences in music at this point...
AND THEN I RAN ACROSS THIS ALBUM WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOLY SHIT MAN THIS THING IS (insert praise here)
Score is unofficial
AND THEN I RAN ACROSS THIS ALBUM WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOLY SHIT MAN THIS THING IS (insert praise here)
Score is unofficial
Im so glad he outdid himself from his last record. One of the most daring and exciting electronic release you will hear this year and the years to come.
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| #2 | / | Tiny Mix Tapes |
| #4 | / | Bleep |
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| #6 | / | The A.V. Club |
| #7 | / | Earbuddy |
| #9 | / | Dazed |
| #10 | / | Pitchfork |
| #12 | / | PopMatters |
| #14 | / | The New York Times: Jon Caramanica |
| #14 | / | The Vinyl Factory |
| #16 | / | No Ripcord |
| #18 | / | FACT |
| #18 | / | Loud and Quiet |
| #18 | / | MondoSonoro |
| #18 | / | Norman Records |
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| #1 | / | Treble (Electronic) |
| #2 | / | PopMatters (Electronic) |
| #9 | / | Exclaim! (Pop & Rock) |
| #125 | / | Pitchfork (2010s) |
| / | The A.V. Club (Electronic) |
Track List
- Faith In Nothing Except In Salvation
- Economy of Freedom
- Honesty
- Noid
- Licking an Orchid (feat. James K)
- Lifetime (feat. Oxhy & Puce Mary)
- Hope In Suffering (Escaping Oblivion & Overcoming Powerlessness) [feat. Oxhy & Puce Mary]
- Recognizing the Enemy
- All the Love We Have Now
- Let the Lioness In You Flow Freely
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Yves Tumor Shares New Song “Applaud” pitchfork.com
Yves Tumor Releases New Album pitchfork.com
Yves Tumor Shares New Song “Noid” 
Added on: September 5, 2018
