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90
As oddly gruesome as its Makoto Aida artwork, Quarantine is the addictive soundtrack to some kind of science fiction nightmare.
13y
80
Quarantine is a challenging record, and one that is likely to attract the attention of decisive listeners—those that will praise it as an exemplary stroke of high art, and those that will pan it as too “hipster” or unnecessarily “avant-garde.”
10y
80
At times it is a challenging listen, but Quarantine shows Laurel Halo's work to be something of a darker, more boundary-pushing twin to the polished dream-pop of Grimes.
12y
80
The juxtapositions are critical; this bleak voice, one of quiet certainty about how quickly everything dissolves that borders on the aggressive for just that reason, underpinned musically by the sounds of embrace.
13y
80
With this record Laurel Halo has created a strong work that, while being notable and challenging for its unusual, compact combination of pop, ambience and musique concrète, is also immersive and enjoyable for this exact reason.
14y
80
Halo’s soundworld is deeply mediated by technology, media, and memory, but it refuses to be reducible to any of these things.
14y
80
My experience with Quarantine feels more like an interactive, multimedia affair, as though I'm listening to a record while simultaneously trying to solve a puzzle or challenge the CPU in a video game.
14y
79
This is probably among the most original and enigmatically seductive albums we’ll hear all year, and that itself is certainly an achievement worth celebrating.
14y
70
Quarantine should be a humbling experience, but there’s a certain air of gravitas about the whole thing that makes it seem so much larger than life.
12y
revisited this out of the title being.. topical.. at the moment, and i'm impressed. if you want to be made uneasy and slightly queasy by music in the best way possible look no further.
Bjork but in diffrent clothes
Quarantine is a very vibrant and fresh experience that took me to another world and gave me a new vision of the rainbow.
Production is unique with a lot of ambient passages and soundscapes that sound like not from this planet.
Laurel Halo's vocals sound cohesive combined with some autotune on couple tracks and lyrics.
I don't have anything more to say than wow, this record is mindblowing in how combines the ambient electronic production with cohesive vocals ... read more
bjork but simpsons, cover art goes super hard
very cool production, her voice was a bit too much at points though
Insane fucking album the ambience and futuristic atmosphere it creates is one of the most polarising and hypnotic I've ever heard and her lush voice perfectly compliments this amazing production style.this project feels very bjork esque.this albums is feels like a total blur in a way but it sounds very lush and pretty. Overall I fucking love this
“Words, are, just, words: words are just words that you soon fORGET”
disentangle recs #2:
// This album is like that weird old surreal sci-fi film you snuck out of bed at 12:37am and threw on when you were four, simply because you thought the cover looked interesting. You didn’t understand anything about it, but you wanted to. You fell asleep 4/9 of the way through and got woken up abruptly by a tortured noise. The figure you saw on the screen at that moment is all you ... read more
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