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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Subliminally brilliant, 14 April 2002
As far as your first few listens go, this album only really has a few outstanding moments, especially Sparrow and Upiyano. This is not to say that the rest of the album is poor in any way, it just tends not to jump out at you...However, you should give it a real, serious try. The thing I#'ve noticed with this album is that it seems to concentrate on the low-end....perhaps it's just me, but there is a lot happening in the lower frequencies here, so much so, that it has actually affected my physical state of well-being to a degree that not even Richard Devine or Autechre's Confield have reached. As I say, it might just all be in my head, but I don't think so. I'd say that this is a highly underrated album that can be very difficult to listen to at times, but that it is all wothrwhile at the end of the day. Blah.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
WARP73, incredibly, 3 April 2000
Featuring some mock-innocent package art, 'OneOnOne' sounds like a toy Autechre. It goes pretty like Autechre can with cheap keyboard voicings, but without resonance. It offers extruded, organic-sounding beats, but without complexity or psychological impact. It does have small moments of beauty, notably 'schmyk', but even here, the beats sound amateur. On the rear, we see a young Mira in the middle of nowhere examining her hands. This is telling: the record is hermetic and sounds unreferenced and self-regarding. 'ithanga' is listless, like something from 'On Land' without Eno's discrimination with dark, granular fabrics. The record's naivety seemed interesting until I realised, as an aesthetic, it is completely oversold and cannot cover the lack of inspiration or skill. As laboured and unlovely as its cover, OneOnOne is a disappointing and surprising release from one of the great labels and home of electronica visionaries, Warp.
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2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Possibly the weakest thing Warp have released, 1 Jun 2000
Much as I like to think that any combination of sounds can be interesting, Mira Calix has taken things a little bit far. This is undoubtedly the least interesting ambient/electronica album I've ever listened to. The tracks on offer really do sound like someone messing about with a keyboard, sampler and sequencer without the slightest bit of forethought, or any prior experience of making music.Not only is the music itself of an extremely low quality, but there is no depth to the sound either. Simply put it sounds like the most recent albums by Autechre and Plone awkwardly jammed together and removed of any quality.
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