The North borders

"The problem is not so much that these instrumental flourishes are too little, too late, but that the tracks that hold them feel over-worked, the layers so dense as to stifle the ideas ... The North Borders is not a bad album-- for the most, it's as inoffensive as those decade-old chill-out compilations-- yet a frustration persists because Bonobo is better than this".

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"Indeed, sumptuous and accomplished as it is, The North Borders echoes other great electronic soul records like Protection, the aforementioned Sincere or SBTRKT's debut. It might be dismissed as dinner party music by those with a hunger for more experimental fare, but The North Borders is charming, fascinating and a touch mysterious - exactly the qualities you'd want in your dinner party guest".

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