Lantern

"Producer by appointment to the hip-hop elite, EDM superstar: these are labels that quickly stick, and which, on the evidence of Lantern, Birchard is keen to outrun. It features no guest appearances by rappers and no real hint of TNGHT's EDM take on trap: System might conceivably have been a festival banger, had Birchard not replaced the clap of the snare drum with something that sounds like his equipment short-circuiting and come up with a riff that starts out as a grandiose, faintly proggy synth fanfare but gets increasingly atonal and claustrophobic as the track progresses".

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" The assortment of vocalists, both original and sampled -- there is a boys' choir and scores of trilling chipmunk-like sounds, but no rappers -- adds to the album's scattered quality ... Considering all the restless energy and wild swings from sound to sound, it's no surprise that two of the album's least restrained tracks -- one a surefire dancefloor emptier, the other a finale that's part fist-pumping mid-'80s action sequence, part hard-fought modern video game ending -- are reserved for the end".

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