Tidal Memory Exo

Critic Score
Based on 4 reviews
User Score
2024 Ratings: #98
May 10, 2024 / Release Date
LP / Format
LUCKYME® / Label
Iglooghost, CystProducer
Cyst, IglooghostWriter
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Critic Reviews

80
The Needle Drop
Goes almost as insanely hard as its cover.
76
Sputnikmusic

The Iglooghost octopus still has more limbs to grow; more tricks up more sleeves; send more dope album art please.

70
The Line of Best Fit

Tidal Memory Exo is that high-octane romp that plays well on a speaker, the sound and the fury, but less so in every other conceivable music-enjoying circumstance. Yet another lesson to be learned: music is about positioning the right moment, and putting oneself in the proper current.

70
Slant Magazine
The album largely finds the producer confidently carving out his own identity as an electronic music innovator.
ST4T1C
100

Iglooghost is an artist I’ve been meaning to revisit sometime soon, as I remember albums like “Neō Wax Bloom” and “Steel Mogu” being huge parts of my childhood wonder, especially for getting me into electronic side of music (should revisit those at some point).

This new album of theirs is absolutely insane too, some honestly wild and cool as all hell soundscapes across this entire thing. Really love the cold and calculated feel of this album, really feels like ... read more

Woodbine
80

Poor Iglooghost… His little Ice house is melting…
🔥 Because this album is STRAIGHT FIRE 🔥

Seamus Rawles Malliagh, also known as Iglooghost, is an artist I’ve had my eyes on since I laid them upon those little Gnome-like figures on his album covers. I’ve gone down the Wonky wormhole with Mr. Ghost and traveled his progression from funky little HyperPop beats to this grimey project, riddled with barnacles and soaked in algae. This album is a blast to the darker ... read more

HotelRestaurant
90

In the heart of this mysterious, desolate ocean and vast emptiness, Iglooghost forges and engineers such immense and overwhelming anthems of harmonic dissonance, sending intense ripples and fluctuations throughout the great beyond.

Highlights: ☆ ALL OF 'EM ☆

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lovemigraine
80

As a result of the endless operation of industrial machinery, the world has drowned in dust and murky water. Yet within the ruins of civilization, new life has begun to emerge. Something slimy. Something with metallic bones.

Industrialization ended long ago. All that remains are rusting towers, broken antennas, fragments of the old world, all partially submerged beneath filthy water.

According to Seamus himself, the record was written while he was living in a flooded squat in a coastal town ... read more

Lurnatic
85

[65 -> 85]

The idea of this album resembling the decayed scrap found by Igloo in a nearby shore of a flooded area in England fascinates me, not that there's scrap and flood somewhere in England, that's so expected, but because the Deconstructed Club/Electro-Industrial instrumental artifacts portray that very well here not just thematically, but the production is just as moving as how the ocean waves try to get rid of the junk, but it becomes this insane mess of various chopped up ... read more

Benzodiazepine
95

Every aspect, including but not limited to the album cover and the music that lies behind it, is phenomenal.

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Track List

1Blue Hum
1:52
76
2New Species
3:21
87
3Alloy Flea
3:53
84
4Coral Mimic
3:26
83
5Spawn01
3:33
feat. Cyst
82
6flux•Cocoon
3:25
82
7Pulse Angel
3:14
82
8Echo Lace
3:16
82
9Nemat0de
3:03
83
10Chlorine•FM (Intermission)
1:39
74
11Germ Chrism
4:02
85
12Dewdrop Signal
4:05
81
13Geo Sprite Exo
4:02
84
Total Length: 42 minutes
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