Safe In The Hands Of Love
by Yves Tumor
  • Record Label: Warp
  • Release Date: Sep 5, 2018
User Score
8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 97 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 83 out of 97
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 97
  3. Negative: 9 out of 97

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  1. Ricko
    Dec 7, 2021
    6
    This album really is a stew of everything. Electronica and jazz, experimental R&B, dance and pop all mashed in to the pot. It started off really strong for me. The whole first side is solid, peaking with "Noid" and "Licking an Orchid". The second half has a bit too much self indulgence for my liking and a lack of focus. The risk taking and experiments become tiring as it goes on. Take theThis album really is a stew of everything. Electronica and jazz, experimental R&B, dance and pop all mashed in to the pot. It started off really strong for me. The whole first side is solid, peaking with "Noid" and "Licking an Orchid". The second half has a bit too much self indulgence for my liking and a lack of focus. The risk taking and experiments become tiring as it goes on. Take the track "Hope in Suffering" - 5 minutes long and I simply cannot see the point of it or where it goes. Perhaps I need to give side 2 a few more listens as I think there is half a really good album here.… Expand

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5
#5 Best Album of 2018

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Metascore
89

Universal acclaim - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. PopMatters
    Sep 25, 2018
    90
    What pushes Safe in the Hands of Love beyond the producer's previous works is the emotion that the record transmits. No matter if the synths are harsh, or the rhythm section arrives with the perfect groove, this is a work filled with an emotive purpose, and it is that core that makes it such a wonderful listen.
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  2. The Wire
    Sep 21, 2018
    80
    Sometimes the sensuousness of Serpent Music is missed, but Tumor’s drive to take this radically new music to audiences as big as Blake’s, Ocean’s or even Radiohead’s is exhilarating. [Oct 2018, p.63]
  3. Tiny Mix Tapes
    Sep 17, 2018
    90
    Bowie’s only consistent trajectory has been one of tearing down his mythos even as his builds it, and his latest manages to knock down yet another wall as he steps more fully into the light than he’s ever dared tread before. On Safe in the Hands of Love, Yves Tumor isn’t concerned with being “experimental;” he’s simply concerned with being.
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