Rolling Stone (p.75) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Blake uses neosoul keyboards, blip beats and layered snips of his heart-starved warbling to create eerie, softly roiling slow-jams."Spin (p.75) - "Using lo-fi digital techniques to play up rough edges and raw emotion, Blake's rare talent is to make music so naked seem unshakable."Magnet (p.37) - Ranked #20 in Magnet's '20 Best Albums Of 2011' -- "His itchy productions were born with an innate sense of agitated drama, the tension that lies the shadows of a pregnant pause or fermata rest."The Wire (p.46) - "Blake is an instrumentalist, digital synthesist, producer and engineer too, and -- most crucially of all -- blurs the boundaries between these roles."CMJ - "[Blake] reaches unplumbed emotional depths using the mostly untapped potential of electronics to reach the soul."Q (Magazine) (p.113) - 4 stars out of 5 -- ""Blake has an uncanny ear for what to leave out, and how absence can play on the imagination."Paste (magazine) - "With a stripped-down, uncluttered sound, Blake's creations are hauntingly beautiful. His voice echoes soulfully throughout..."Clash (magazine) - "His are fragile, beautiful songs floating over warmly alien, sometimes seemingly formless musical structures yet it's an effort borne through unconventional levels of space and patience."Uncut (magazine) (p.98) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Blake takes from dubstep an awareness of space and silence; he appreciates the power of a perfectly weighted pause."Uncut (magazine) (p.33) - Ranked #21 in Uncut's '50 Best Albums Of 2011' -- "Blake's debut album revealed him to be an innovative singer-songwriter....Spare, beat-strewn and strikingly plaintive."29.84968
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Rolling Stone (p.75) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Blake uses neosoul keyboards, blip beats and layered snips of his heart-starved warbling to create eerie, softly roiling slow-jams."Spin (p.75) - "Using lo-fi digital techniques to play up rough edges and raw emotion, Blake's rare talent is to make music so naked seem unshakable."Magnet (p.37) - Ranked #20 in Magnet's '20 Best Albums Of 2011' -- "His itchy productions were born with an innate sense of agitated drama, the tension that lies the shadows of a pregnant pause or fermata rest."The Wire (p.46) - "Blake is an instrumentalist, digital synthesist, producer and engineer too, and -- most crucially of all -- blurs the boundaries between these roles."CMJ - "[Blake] reaches unplumbed emotional depths using the mostly untapped potential of electronics to reach the soul."Q (Magazine) (p.113) - 4 stars out of 5 -- ""Blake has an uncanny ear for what to leave out, and how absence can play on the imagination."Paste (magazine) - "With a stripped-down, uncluttered sound, Blake's creations are hauntingly beautiful. His voice echoes soulfully throughout..."Clash (magazine) - "His are fragile, beautiful songs floating over warmly alien, sometimes seemingly formless musical structures yet it's an effort borne through unconventional levels of space and patience."Uncut (magazine) (p.98) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Blake takes from dubstep an awareness of space and silence; he appreciates the power of a perfectly weighted pause."Uncut (magazine) (p.33) - Ranked #21 in Uncut's '50 Best Albums Of 2011' -- "Blake's debut album revealed him to be an innovative singer-songwriter....Spare, beat-strewn and strikingly plaintive."29.84968
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Entertainment Weekly (8/17/01, p.73) - "...Part homebody, part hell-raiser, part sexy strutter..." - Rating: B-8.543615
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Spin (p.71) - "[He fares] better when lashing a live wire across vicious first single 'The Vision' and whetting the stabbing synths of 'Tron' and 'Slaughter House.'"Q (Magazine) (p.127) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Eighties synth sounds ebb and flow on 'Tron' before a saw-toothed bassline drops into the mix with a crash...Electrifying..."7.221925
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"...The pleasure of this unique film comes in watching superb actors dine on Mamet's pungent language like the feast it is..."Rolling Stone "...An indoor actor's movie with visual snap and distinction..."USA Today "...Splendid....A mordantly funny DEATH OF A SALESMAN for the 1990's..."New York Times "...Tightly wound -- and actually very fine....[Baldwin acts with] reptilian gung-ho..." -- Rating: B+Entertainment Weekly "[With] a fantastic cast who relished the searing scenes of male competitiveness..."Uncut "Many of the plaudits go, rightly, to Mamet's screenplay....But James Foley's direction is also a key to the film's relentless, restless power."Empire "...Mamet is a true magician with streetwise words, a writer who recognizes the poetry hidden in the most scalding language and creates profane dialogue hot enough to suck all the air out of the screen..."Los Angeles Times "...David Mamet's sales drama is notable for the quantity and quality of its swearing. Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris and Al Pacino all have a go..."Total Film "[E]xemplary. Foley remains faithful to his source and gives his actors plenty of room to move..."Sight and Sound6.748826
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"[T]he film delivers the full quota of outrageously obnoxious behavior....Almost subliminally salted in are some striking, truthful moments..."Sight and Sound "[T]his feature-length dose of boyish sexual fumbling and fantastically dirty British slang is bound to expand an American viewer's vocabulary." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly6.738992
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Down Beat (June 2002, pp.52-53) - 3.5 out of 5 stars - "...Blake has the skill to make weighty improv ideas seem whimsical. It's both beguiling and compelling..."6.178908
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