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Immolate Yourself
by Telefon Tel Aviv
This is the third album for the Chicago-based duo of Josh Eustis and Charlie Cooper (who passed away on January 22, 2009).
LABEL: |
Bpitch Control |
RELEASE DATE: |
03 February 2009 |
DISCS: |
1 disc |
GENRE(S): |
Electronic |
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90
Slant Magazine
Immolate Yourself does a lot and does it all well, creating an album that adds explicit punctuation to an already shocking loss.
80
All Music Guide
These are chilling sounds from a dark place that, nonetheless, shelter the listener. Between the European and stateside physical releases of the album, Cooper passed away. Knowledge of that could only intensify the album's most passive spins.
80
Dusted Magazine
It’s a confident outing from an outfit with all the right reasons to be confident, a unified and often arresting record with few qualms about what it’s supposed to be.
80
Urb
Immolate Yourself picks up exactly where they left off, with a sound much more mature and textured--coming complete with its owned imagined world--fully equipped with freeform dynamism of a celestial and delicate styling.
80
Alternative Press
The New Orleans duo have crafted another epic album--this time, though, it's a more organic affair. [Feb 2009, p.107]
80
The Guardian
If you're seeking an album to keep out the winter chill, you could do worse than to wrap yourself up in Telefon Tel Aviv's sumptuous head music.
77
cokemachineglow
Immolate Yourself feels like a transitional record from an act that was almost ready to make itself crystal clear.
75
The Phoenix
Telefon Tel Aviv have always been the product of two drives (both senses), but on Immolate Yourself, for the first time, the workflows of Cooper and Eustis merge a single, renewed vision. They go a bit poppier than they've ever gone, yet it's also their darkest work.
64
Pitchfork
Yet unlike the more cohesive albums from those aforementioned acts, Immolate is a one-step forward, one-step back proposition, marching in place to an internal setting somewhere between chilly background mood and something more melodic and engaging.
60
Spin
Their smoky, atmospheric ballads are too languid by half, but Telefon Tel Aviv's bright melodic palette keeps Immolate Yourself from descending into a dull fog.
60
Sputnikmusic
Immolate Yourself is a finely produced record, and still features a good chunk of material worth listening to, even if it doesn't exactly stack up with the duo's previous efforts.
50
PopMatters
While it is understandable that Telefon Tel Aviv wanted to explore the styles conducive to being on one of the premier dance labels in Berlin’s robust music scene, it just does not feel right for some reason, especially in comparison to the fractured brilliance of their first two studio endeavors.
The average user rating for this album is 9.3 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
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