Critic Score
Based on 4 reviews
User Score
Based on 124 ratings
2016 Ratings: #420
March 25, 2016 / Release Date
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Young / Label
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Critic Reviews

84
Resident Advisor
If peers like Lotic and Arca use club music to express political or sexual agendas, Amnesia Scanner is willfully opaque. It's impossible to tell what they're sampling most of the time, but it doesn't matter—the results are confusing but compelling.
82
Pitchfork

Intense as AS may be, it never becomes a slog or overly complex. The EP has an acute grasp on the rhythms and mood that make people dance.

80
Tiny Mix Tapes
A Sanctum of traditions built on crude rudimentary impressions and unconscious thirst, where organic sensation glues to the milieu of orienting signals. Detached from reality and deserted from companions, we reel to illusion in the empty space, a gulf state, an oculus rift.
80
AllMusic
One of the most daring, exciting electronic releases of 2016.
Dorrie
85

this goes hard

stonest
93

this is one of those unexplainable glitch in the matrix albums that will never happen again. the surreal approach to sampling sounds completely hellish, just like the cover. this thing is absolutely flowing with ambition and experimentation. we partying with the devil with this one

daniel_galvez
83

1. AS Gardens Need Walls - 75
2. AS Chingy - 80
3. AS Crust - 90
4. AS Wood Gas - 80
5. AS Want It - 90
6. AS Atlas - 85

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BurntBurner
70

IMO very nice genre blends, but also very hit or miss

stonest
93

this is one of those unexplainable glitch in the matrix albums that will never happen again. the surreal approach to sampling sounds completely hellish, just like the cover. this thing is absolutely flowing with ambition and experimentation. we partying with the devil with this one

Shblevins
65

Found this purely because the album cover is crazy, and its a pretty cool electronic ep with some crazy production sounds and ideas, though nothing too developed. Will definitely be diving into more from this artist.

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