Safe in the Hands of Love

Yves Tumor - Safe in the Hands of Love
Critic Score
Based on 13 reviews
2018 Ratings: #45 / 882
Year End Rank: #27
User Score
2018 Ratings: #52
Liked by 95 people
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CRITIC REVIEWS

91
Pitchfork
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
Tiny Mix Tapes

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
PopMatters

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
Crack Magazine
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.
90
Sputnikmusic

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.

85
The 405

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
Resident Advisor

Yves Tumor joins the likes of Arca and SOPHIE at the vanguard of experimental pop.

80
The Guardian
It is refreshing to hear someone so emancipated from the rules of genre.
80
musicOMH

Safe In The Hands Of Love is a fascinating synthesis of rock, plunderphonics, bass music and noise from an artist that remains stubbornly undefinable.

75
Spectrum Culture

Bowie often works best through subtlety, and that strength is not particularly amplified on Safe in The Hands of Love.

70
Loud and Quiet

The album feels uneven, the result of too many sonic ideas with none taking precedence.

70
The Needle Drop

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.

BradTasteMusic
80

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

dyelir
93

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.

BuffaloStaple
93

yeeeeeeeeeeee

80

8/10. Fav Tracks: Faith In Nothing Except In Salvation; Noid; Lifetime; All The Love We Have Now

Jimshair46
83

This grew on me SO HARD. Also that intro track is crazy.

70

cool alberm

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Added on: September 5, 2018