Singularity

"A thumping, mind-meltingly good night out was the subject of Jon Hopkins' Mercury-shortlisted 2013 album 'Immunity'. This time, on album five, the electronica mastermind wants you to have a blissful psychedelic experience, and he's here to guide you through from beginning to end. Though 'Singularity"s 62-minutes can get extremely heavy - Hopkins fondly calls its gargantuan centrepiece 'Everything Connected' a "massive techno bastard" - it's still a near-perfect trip, and one that confirms Hopkins' status as one of the genre's brightest talents".

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"Singularity is the proper follow-up to Jon Hopkins' 2013 breakthrough Immunity, a spellbinding album of highly intricate, glitchy techno which nevertheless felt organic, and even classical at times. Like that album, Singularity is filled with frayed feedback, skillfully crafted beats, and gentle piano melodies, as well as the occasional breathy vocals ... As striking as Immunity was, Singularity feels more developed, and it's ultimately a tough call as to which album is more exciting".

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"Best New Music" - "Pitched between heat-seeking acid house and ambient bliss, the techno auteur's first album since 2013 is a beat-music odyssey that thrums with spiritual resonance ... The songs here are about 75 percent build and 25 percent release, which is gripping, faintly exhausting, and, if you're ready to go there, transcendent. Hopkins seems to model his music on the infinite cycles of destruction and rebirth that power the universe-but we, too, are part of the scheme. Singularity is ultimately grounded in the personal, not the cosmic, which is what makes this head music so rich".

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"Det lyder, som om Jon Hopkins sender en hær af stormtropper ind i øregangen og lader dem brede sig ud i hjernecellerne, især på numre som 'Neon Pattern Drum', der sniger sig frem, sætter sig fast for derefter langsomt at begynde at slå fra sig i skarpe syntetiske beats. Jon Hopkins lyder nærmest, som om han prøver at få den hedengangne genre intelligent dance music tilbage i vælten igen ... Det var måske en lidt for firkantet betegnelse, men den ramte ned i, at elektronisk musik kan være en hjernestimulerende pensel, der maler vores omgivelser i alskens farver. I glimt ledes tankerne hen på to andre intelligente elektroniske briter, nemlig Boards of Canada og især deres seneste album 'Tomorrow's Harvest' fra 2013 ... Jon Hopkins har tidligere samarbejdet med Brian Eno om albummet 'Another Day on Earth' i 2005. På den sidste del af 'Singularity' lyder han mere Brian Eno-inspireret og knap så kølig og indmarcherende som på albummets første halvdel ... Det bedste vedelektroniskmusik er, at det er en genre, der kan tage drejninger, bygge verdener op og stikke af. Men de skarpt opdelte stemninger på dette album står i for stor kontrast til hinanden til at kunne fungere som konfronterende vekselvirkning".

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