Music / electronica

The animal spirits


Reviews (2)


Pitchfork

d. 8. Nov. 2017

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Chal Ravens

d. 8. Nov. 2017

"Electronic producer James Holden has remade himself into a bandleader on his new album-a collection of self-described "folk-trance" recorded with improv ensemble the Animal Spirits".


Resident advisor

d. 10. Nov. 2017

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Paul Clarke

d. 10. Nov. 2017

"It's those feelings that make The Animal Spirits dance music, though not in the conventional sense. Its rhythms have more in common with prog and jazz-a change likely helped by the gnawa music Holden encountered during a trip to Morocco in 2014-than the progressive house of early singles like 2000's "Horizons." If The Inheritors was the sound of the former trance artist undergoing a spiritual rebirth, The Animal Spirits is as close as he's come to transcendence".