With love

"Though With Love is Zomby's most substantial statement, its building blocks are as brittle as ever. Songs rarely make it beyond the three-minute mark, and many fade out suddenly, as if he got bored while making them. More than ever before he's established a core sound palette-high-pitched trills, tinny drums, ominous strings—expanding on the bleakness of Dedication but slimming down his toolbox in the process. Everything has a neo-gothic sheen, like it's set against a stark black background. Minimalist and sleek, at times it's so uniform that it's hard to tell songs apart".

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"Whether dealing out breakbeat punishments like "777," wriggling dubstep like "Ascension," or mystical funk like "Isis," he sounds like no one else, simultaneously street and chic, enticing and elusive. The few moments left beatless -- like "Black Rose," so fragile that it sounds like it's on the brink of shattering as it leads into the thumping "Digital Smoke" -- are almost as moving as the ones made for the trunks".

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"Zomby har præsteret et konceptalbum - en nostalgisk, måske forsvundet form, som på baggrund af simple udgangspunkter, her i form af molfikserede melodiske temaer og drum'n'bass- og UK garage-rytmik, bygger kompositioner, som konstant hjemsøger og genfortolker sine egne aksiomer".

"Det kræver en vis portion mod at udgive 33 elektroniske tracks på en dobbelt-cd i en tid, hvor den let antændelige hitsingle har skubbet albummet til side. Og selvtilliden er vist i orden, når man som den engelske producer Zomby oven i købet vælger at dyrke det monotone i sine kompositioner og lade de enkelte, korte track fade pludseligt ud, som om det hele var en ophobning af skitser. Men der er hverken helt gode eller nye ideer nok til den samlede udgivelse, og derfor ender 'With Love' med indimellem at ligne overmod".

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