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The WireDec 21, 2021A slice of otherworldly frolics that does both of its inspirations credit. [Dec 2021, p.61]
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MojoDec 13, 2021This is the sound of 19 different keyboards imagining a parallel world where the test record in every '70s hi-fi home was Wendy C micro-Mooging her way through the Sun ra spaceways. The combination highlights the innocence and beauty of both styles, like forgotten '70s TV themes soundtracking scientific experiments or lonely IBM computers hymning their own obsolescence. [Jan 2022, p.86]
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Dec 13, 2021In the end, Switched on Ra is the best kind of tribute, demonstrating a fundamental grasp of the original material but taking it in an entirely different direction.
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Dec 13, 2021Crain and company use Ra’s music as the platform for some of their most accessible, pop-adjacent music yet. They’ve never sounded so interested in melodies, chords, and song structures as opposed to hypnotic loops. This rigorousness belies the album’s stoner-bait trappings, and if these interpretations are usually unrecognizable until the melodies come in, they’re at least honest and thoughtful about how to bring Ra’s music into a synth-centric context.
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UncutDec 13, 2021Amplifying the convivial otherworldliness of his music by grabbing hold of mythic melodies like "Outer Spaceways Incorporated" and "We Travel The Spaceways" and filling them with their analogue fantasia, alien chants going intergalactic in gently fried circuit boards. [Dec 2021, p.25]