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  • Summary: The British ambient electronic trio spent two years experimenting with their playing and editing before recording its ninth full-length release.
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  1. Aug 16, 2016
    80
    Ghost Stations is designed to arouse thoughts of “abandonment, empty spaces and dereliction”. But that denies the album’s soothing, ultimately positive nature. It may offer a melancholy tour of desolate scenes, but they’re lent the nocturnal beauty of ancient structures bathed in subdued lighting, any sense of threat exchanged for a reassuring sense of security.
  2. 80
    “Riser” features Jaki Liebezeit-style tom-toms behind cosmic contrails of synth trapped in a cavernous ambience; while string synth and wordless vocal keening drape like fog around “Abandoned/In Silence”, whose clarinet line establishes accidental but apt echoes of the theme to Exodus.
  3. Uncut
    Aug 16, 2016
    80
    For all of their doom-mongering--this record feeds on notions of dereliction and abandonment--Marconi Union always finds beauty in the bleakest places. [Sep 2016, p.76]
  4. Mojo
    Aug 16, 2016
    80
    Ghost Stations is blithesome evidence of Marconi Union expanding on their ambient/downtempo tag. [Sep 2016, p.93]
  5. Sep 9, 2016
    80
    All of the trademark Marconi-isms are here, but they’re now emboldened by broader musical strokes.
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