by
James Holden
- Record Label: Border Community
- Release Date: Mar 31, 2023
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Apr 3, 2023The result is magnificent: “dance” music that bursts out of the grid with retro textures, prelapsarian oscillations, birdsong and bells.
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Apr 24, 2023Imagine This is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities is one of those rare records that is very long but doesn’t seem to have an idle moment. The album becomes deeper and more rewarding with each consecutive track.
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Apr 4, 2023Holden has created a life-affirming hour in the musical heavens, just as the title promises.
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UncutMar 31, 2023This is hypnotic stuff. ... A record that feels genuinely transportive. [May 2023, p.30]
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Apr 27, 2023Imagine This Is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities is perhaps the furthest-out release in a discography full of inventive, inspired music, and it's some of Holden's most exciting and impressive work.
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The WireApr 4, 2023The way these surprises are smuggled in via skilful sonic illusions attests to Holden’s wide listening habits, and his judgement for bringing different sounds together like an old school studio producer. [Apr 2023, p.54]
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Mar 31, 2023Each track is inevitably a wild combination of memories, ideas, and influences – midi-fied sacred harp singers clash with squiggly synthesis, fiddle collides with the most absurd funk bass. Meanwhile, the spectre of prog is everywhere and the club is never far away. Amazingly, it all works.
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MojoMar 31, 2023An ecstatic update on classic techno. [Apr 2023, p.86]
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Mar 31, 2023It's meant to be experienced in one fell swoop. Once the record works its magic on you, it'll be hard to pull out a single moment.
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Apr 6, 2023The full enjoyment of Imagine This Is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities requires some imagination of your own, a sort of listening past the vaporous surface of the music. Like teenage Holden at the radio, you may sense a magical world there, just beyond what you can hear.
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Apr 6, 2023The album does a good job of rekindling the connection with our younger, hopeful selves.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 10
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Mixed: 1 out of 10
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Negative: 1 out of 10
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Jul 30, 2023It's cool to be kind in the hope. I almost said "made with love" but you can never go back.
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May 17, 2023
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