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  • Summary: The sixth full-length release from British electronic producer Matt Cutler as Lone was inspired in part by his time in bed while suffering from a fever.
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  1. Jun 9, 2016
    80
    Edited to its very essence, the album is only 36 minutes long, but sometimes that’s all you need.
  2. Jun 9, 2016
    76
    Levitate leverages rave nostalgia to get to a deeper truth: Free your inner child, and your ass and mind will follow.
  3. Jun 9, 2016
    70
    Cutler has riddled these tracks with a rainbow of synth ripples, making Levitate stand out immediately as a Lone record, despite heavily harkening back to a bygone era.
  4. Jun 9, 2016
    70
    The tracks are neither buoyed by unimpeded uplift or grounded by posture-crushing gravity; they’re somewhere in the middle, suspended slightly off the earth but prevented from rocketing skyward. This is what makes Cutler’s sound so distinct, here and elsewhere.
  5. Jun 9, 2016
    70
    So short and concentrated, the album feels like a style exercise rather than a major work, but it nonetheless finds Cutler refining his skills and presenting the best version of his 1992-via-2020 approach yet.
  6. Uncut
    Aug 5, 2016
    60
    A succinct pastiche of junglist, breakbeat and chill-out fare. [Sep 2016, p.75]