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Potential not only makes a shockingly strong case for the top tier of contemporary sample-indebted achievements (alongside pillars including Burial’s Rival Dealer EP and Jamie xx’s In Colour), but does so while insisting that the universe, much like ourselves, will never be explored in its entirety.
10y
83
Potential is a unique and immersive album, and one that sends a powerful message to Hinton’s fellow producers. Samples are more than just clips to be manipulated with a keyboard; they are people and stories that play a huge role in shaping the course of an album.
10y
80
Although Potential has much more of a clear purpose behind it than Nonfiction, it doesn’t necessarily feel like a totally different album. Both are laden with sounds and textures that - if put in the wrong hands - could easily result in a confusing mess of a record.
10y
80
It’s The Range’s best work yet, dancing synths, spectacular drops and immaculately crisp loops. Without the story it’d stand up as a beautiful piece of work, but add that in and it’s the most human electronic record released for ages.
10y
80
Whether you're aware of the conceptual backstory behind Potential or come into the project blind, Hinton makes the album just as conceptually moody as it is conceptually aural.
10y
80
Whilst a vast majority of the rhetoric surrounding Potential focuses on Hinton’s voyage through the depths of YouTube, it must be stated that there are gorgeous moments of arrangement and instrumentation to be found.
10y
80
It’s a creative, deeply introspective record that makes up for in depth what it doesn’t quite reach in soaring heights.
10y
80
That sense of newfound freedom and exaltation surges through Potential, a rich matrix of the Range’s knack for digging up strangers’ stories and assimilating breakbeat, grime, U.K. garage, and late ’90s R&B.
10y
80
Potential is as great an album as it is a story, and the songs allow you to sink into them while simultaneously offering a chance to think about one’s dreams and actually putting in the effort to chase them.
10y
80
This is music designed for uplift, with carefully plotted builds yielding to big choruses, and it taps into electronic music's sense of possibility not by pushing things further, but by simplifying and paring back.
10y
74
Potential is largely a wonderful collection of uplifting and humbling electronic pop.
10y
70
In some ways, Potential seems like a 2010s update of Moby's Play, with the Alan Lomax-recorded blues and gospel samples replaced by early 21st century youth expressing themselves musically and attempting to live out their dreams.
10y
Honestly I’m not sure why I chose this as the introduction point to this artist, the debut album Nonfiction seems to be much more my thing but it’s too late to back down now. Potential by The Range is a mediocre Future Garage album with its blend of UK Bass and Wonky. It does have potential, but it’s just not utilized and creates for a very inconsistent album with not that much noteworthy moments. There are good tracks but there are a ton of filler on here which ... read more
The production and vibe of this is just ethereal and surreal. I really love how the instrumentals bring so much emotion and power, it doesn't necessarily has to be happy to make you feel alive. HOWEVER, those freakin' vocals... they bring down SO MUCH the tracks building. At some points it can be impressive, but overall it tends to be annoying and unnecessary. I still like how much this sounds like an anime OST, it takes you to another whole galaxy.
Fav tracks: Regular, Five Four, No Loss, ... read more
This is sample-heavy electronic music. But its intricacies in the music make it build up into a sometimes powerful feeling. Overall it is an album that can surprise and uplift, although it has some hurdles.
Honestly I’m not sure why I chose this as the introduction point to this artist, the debut album Nonfiction seems to be much more my thing but it’s too late to back down now. Potential by The Range is a mediocre Future Garage album with its blend of UK Bass and Wonky. It does have potential, but it’s just not utilized and creates for a very inconsistent album with not that much noteworthy moments. There are good tracks but there are a ton of filler on here which ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Regular 3:21 | 68 |
| 2 | Copper Wire 3:45 | 50 |
| 3 | Florida 3:26 | |
| 4 | Superimpose 2:46 | |
| 5 | Five Four 3:54 | |
| 6 | Falling Out of Phase 3:16 | |
| 7 | No Loss 4:15 | |
| 8 | Skeptical 3:46 | |
| 9 | Retune 3:47 | |
| 10 | So 3:34 | |
| 11 | 1804 4:33 |
Total Length: 40 minutes
