- Record Label: XL
- Release Date: Feb 16, 2018
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Feb 26, 2018Diverse talents are woven together with ease by a man with an encyclopaedic knowledge of how music can affect us. The end result is something truly special.
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Feb 23, 2018The album that the project has produced is perhaps the first truly fantastic record of the year and one that shows that, when we come together, we can create something that is much more than the sum of it's parts, a lesson that in 2018, could become increasingly hard to remember.
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Feb 16, 2018Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell is a moving, beautiful album that offers community as a cure for loneliness. Even if at times he's somewhat overshadowed by his collaborators, Russell manages to have his voice shine through.
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Feb 15, 2018That this is a subtle and seamless love note to music, rather than a case of too many cooks speaks volumes for the man at the helm.
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Q MagazineFeb 15, 2018A masterclass in the art of collaboration. [Mar 2018, p.108]
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Feb 21, 2018The slower that Russell moves, the better for allowing the disparate components of Everything Is Recorded to settle into something exquisite.
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Mar 7, 2018The set comes across as remarkably crafted and measured, from its predominantly slow tempos and recurring elements to the coalescence of shrewdly applied samples and participants who also include pianist Peter Gabriel and saxophonist Kamasi Washington.
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Feb 15, 2018Although he may be the keystone that holds this record together, Russell seems more comfortable behind the boards, letting the talents of his collaborators take centre stage. His tight, percussive productions lay the perfect foundations for the all-star cast to take flight, filling in the gaps with trickling melodies and expertly picked samples.
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Feb 20, 2018At its least interesting, Everything Is Recorded is a compilation album, not a million miles from Albarn’s Gorillaz (fortysomething English guy makes hip-hop-derived album with stellar cast). But it is one whose centre remains tantalisingly unreachable.
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MojoFeb 15, 2018Everything Is Recorded has its sublime moments, but despite a pervasive post-tricky hip-hop nocturnalism and some loopy-interlude glue sprinkled through, it's just too disparate to cohere into a compelling whole. [Mar 2018, p.92]
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