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100
The middle of the album is as hard-edged and relentless as anything of Squarepusher's, if not more.
12y
90
Think of it as Squarepusher's Live-Evil, a complex, fascinating, occasionally bewildering record that no Miles Davis fan would dare prune to a single LP.
12y
80
The album showcases Tom’s incredible talent, both on the electronics side and instrumentally.
12y
80
As wilfully indulgent as it is breathtakingly advanced.
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1y
80
The trick of throwing hallucinatory beauty and hardcore racket into the mix has been employed successfully by Aphex Twin, to whom Jenkinson is frequently compared. Right now, though, the latter must feel that he's finally transcending the comparisons by getting a series of drop-dead props.
1y
79
More than on any record since Music Is Rotted One Note, Ultravisitor makes the case that not only does nobody else sound like Squarepusher, but that few (if anyone) are capable of even a second-rate impersonation.
12y
76
If you dig some seriously "out-there" stuff, if you can handle some noise, then Ultravisitor's where you're at.
11y
70
An album of astounding vision, drawing on the acid, drum 'n' bass and funk at the heart of the smash Go Plastic.
12y
67
It's 80 minutes of dank, chopped-up percussion and blitzed hard-drive scree, broken up only by wistful bass solos straight out of the Windham Hill catalog.
11y
60
There's enough patented 'Pusher weirdness here to tingle your noggin.
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1y
60
Ultravisitor is yet another scattershot Squarepusher album that infuriates as often as it delights.
10y
60
After repeated listens, Squarepusher’s latest offering conjures up an image of shaven-headed nerds smirking knowingly to themselves as they rearrange their collection of Skam rarities into alphabetical order while Tom Jenkinson heads off on another extended live bass guitar solo.
6mo
50
Ultravisitor is pretty much a straight recapitulation of everything Jenkinson has done to date - the superspeed beat workouts, the jazz doodles, the ambient timbres - none of which seems to have evolved from earlier appearances.
2y
The album is terribly strange to me and not for me, it has many interesting sounds, but it's not really my kind of ambient experimental music in that way. I really respect the recommendation and thank you, but sorry, it doesn't work for me as it should, I tried my best, but unfortunately it's not something interesting from my point of view, no matter how much I tried, and if someone gets mad that I gave such a score, ask the person who gave me that recommendation. So that's ... read more
Yeah sure I said I might write a review about "DrukQs", but man I had no idea I'd pick up a Squarepusher album and be greeted with one of the best Electronic music experiences I've ever had.
Let's talk about the concept here, "Ultravisitor" is a pretty personal record. As Tom Jenkinson himself has said: "It is my spectacle of beauty and of terror. It is unknowable, and will never be understood by anybody, least of all its creator." Think of it as Kanye West's ... read more
(...) Not infrequently you'll find noise sessions, electroacoustic music, ambient music, glitches and more interrupting the wilder, more uncontrolled sections of the album. In the great six-to-nine-minute epics that make up the majority of the tracks, these experimental influences interconnect within pieces that, by exaggerating the detail of their rhythmic characteristics, go beyond the limits of what is drums, noise, melody, ambience or texture, metamorphosing each element into another - ... read more
I've been listening to this album on and off for about four years now. Squarepusher has always had a pretty big impact in my life and served as one of my greatest inspirations, even if it doesn't really shine through in what I make. Iambic 9 Poetry, in particular, was a track that always rang out to me as one of the most beautiful things ever made. Tommib Help Buss was also something of a tearjerker for me. Despite my deep connection to this album and what it means to me, I'm ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Ultravisitor 8:33 | 92 |
| 2 | I Fulcrum 3:31 | 80 |
| 3 | Iambic 9 Poetry 6:55 | 96 |
| 4 | Andrei 2:00 | 81 |
| 5 | 50 Cycles 8:33 | 83 |
| 6 | Menelec 5:43 | 88 |
| 7 | C-Town Smash 1:29 | 78 |
| 8 | Steinbolt 7:44 | 89 |
| 9 | An Arched Pathway 4:06 | 74 |
| 10 | Telluric Piece 1:53 | 76 |
| 11 | District Line II 8:33 | 81 |
| 12 | Circlewave 6:28 | 89 |
| 13 | Tetra-Sync 9:27 | 94 |
| 14 | Tommib Help Buss 2:10 | 88 |
| 15 | Every Day I Love 2:36 | 84 |
Total Length: 1 hour, 19 minutes
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