User ratings in Music are temporarily disabled. More info
- Artist(s): Oliver Coates
- Summary: This is the debut full-length release from the collaboration between Mica Levi (aka Micachu) and Oliver Coates, who previously worked together on 2014's "Under the Skin" soundtrack.
Buy Now
| Buy on |
|
- Record Label: Slip
- Genre(s): Electronic, Experimental, Avant-Garde, Pop/Rock, Neo-Classical
- More Details and Credits »
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 8 out of 9
-
Mixed: 1 out of 9
-
Negative: 0 out of 9
-
Nov 30, 2016The result is an unpredictable, captivating listening experience.
-
Nov 30, 2016Remain Calm’s 13 tracks pass in a brief 28 minutes, the shortest of these contorted vignettes lasting just the same number of seconds. Each is it its own entity, a different shade of light and colour, a different lifeworld entirely.
-
Dec 5, 2016Even as its mood slides from pensive to morose to quietly exuberant, this remains throughout one of the more enjoyable experimental releases this year.
-
The WireNov 30, 2016Totalling a scant half hour, the album’s fleeting length leaves me wondering whether some tracks exhaust all potential within their mayfly-like timespans. But it captures a moment, and judging by the collaborative rapport between Levi and Coates it suggests, hopefully it’ll be the first of many. [Nov 2016, p.59]
-
UncutJan 31, 2017The music here should captivate anyone who ever imagined what a Burial remix of Arthur Russell's World Of Echo might resemble. [Feb 2017, p.33]
-
Dec 13, 2016This whole album pulses with the emotivity of a cybernetic rainforest.
-
Nov 30, 2016As a whole, Remain Calm dies too quickly, leaving the listener hanging on the sandy, sunset-lit horizon of 'Mob of Waters'; 'I’ll Keep Going' stretches its melancholic (and mostly static) air a minute too long; and while the concept of 'Xhill Stepping' as dissected electro amuses on paper, its dry deserted dancehall yields nothing but empty space.
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 0 out of
-
Mixed: 0 out of
-
Negative: 0 out of