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- Summary: The 14th full-length studio release for the Ambient techno duo was recorded while on tour.
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- Record Label: Kompakt
- Genre(s): Electronic, Ambient, Pop/Rock, Ambient Dub
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Positive: 7 out of 9
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Mixed: 2 out of 9
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Oct 13, 2016COW makes massive gains from having been created quickly, much of the source material being recorded on the road, and the samples and titles provide pleasing echoes of the group’s earlier work. Despite the nostalgia, those samples manage to sound fresher than those of more recent projects.
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Oct 14, 2016You could spend weeks with COW/Chill Out, World! and still feel the thrill of discovery with each new listen.
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Oct 13, 2016The album succeeds in creating a calm state of mind, but it never dwells in one place for too long, sounding more excited than it might seem on the surface.
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Oct 13, 2016On COW / Chill Out, World!, the Orb's easily digestible and absorbent songs make it simple for the listener to take the album's titular advice.
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Nov 4, 2016In particular, the beautiful and ambient narco-breakbeat of ‘4am Exhale’ and swooning downtempo of ‘9 Elms Over River Eno (Channel 9)’ are two gentle, aural hugs from these two esteemed purveyors of sonic sunshine.
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Oct 14, 2016COW makes no claims to reinvent the wheel. Yet its heightened attention to detail marks a new focus for the duo, who, with less tools than ever before, manage to find a sound that’s wistful, wide-eyed, and surprisingly full of sounds new to the act, if still par for the course within the wider realm of contemporary composition.
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Oct 13, 2016COW‘s inward-looking is often gray and formless, and suggests that Paterson and Fehlmann are indeed best understood when exploring the concepts they can’t understand.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Oct 15, 2016
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