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.
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.
On the whole ... it is the album Yves Tumor has hinted at making for years, a realisation of everything that makes them wondrous, and a culmination of ideas, experimentation and soundscapes into a brutal, beautiful, purposeful statement.
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.
Yves Tumor joins the likes of Arca and SOPHIE at the vanguard of experimental pop.
Safe In The Hands Of Love is a fascinating synthesis of rock, plunderphonics, bass music and noise from an artist that remains stubbornly undefinable.
Bowie often works best through subtlety, and that strength is not particularly amplified on Safe in The Hands of Love.
The album feels uneven, the result of too many sonic ideas with none taking precedence.
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.
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
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.
8/10. Fav Tracks: Faith In Nothing Except In Salvation; Noid; Lifetime; All The Love We Have Now
1 | Faith in Nothing Except in Salvation 1:33 | 84 |
2 | Economy of Freedom 4:55 | 83 |
3 | Honesty 5:01 | 83 |
4 | Noid 3:29 | 92 |
5 | Licking An Orchid 4:38 feat. James K | 90 |
6 | Lifetime 3:42 | 90 |
7 | Hope in Suffering (Escaping Oblivion & Overcoming Powerlessness) 4:56 | 77 |
8 | Recognizing the Enemy 4:49 | 88 |
9 | All The Love We Have Now 3:22 | 82 |
10 | Let the Lioness in You Flow Freely 5:32 | 83 |
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#14 | / | The New York Times: Jon Caramanica |
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