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Montonous and really flat-sounding debut album. I've been awaiting something more colorful and characteristic. If two, most distinctive records are the singles from previous year (Liquorice and So), we have a big problem. Sorry, not we, Alice Jemima has a big problem.

"Feel It Break" with "Pulse", "Darken Her Horse" or "Beat An The Pulse" was really fresh air into dark electro and always will be one of my all-time favourites. After mediocre "Olympia" and awful "Habitat" EP I was looking forward to hear something new, more like debut album. But instead of this we've received raw songs with beat covering all the melodies (modular synth and some strings - melodies, heh) and, powerful and bloodcurdling ... read more

If this record had come out in first half of 2016, we would have treated it like something special. But now, after Blood Orange's Freetown Sound and Solange's A Seat to the Table it's only half way from mediocre to good.

This is really astonishing, entirely new Banks. More experienced, more self-confident, honest with herself. And second part of The Altar, well, shit goes real. And it's amazing.