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Oct 15, 2013For anyone who can appreciate emotional breadth that music is capable of conveying, make Wild Light a part of your life. It may be the best instrumental album you hear this year.
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Oct 15, 2013Short of any psychotropic assistance, Wild Light is a credible substitute for nirvana, demanding you suspend your disbelief and just jump in feet first, setting yourself free from all corporeal existence.
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Oct 15, 2013While Wild Light correctly prioritises focus over twists, there are sections that catch you by surprise.
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Oct 15, 2013It’s a story (almost cinematic), a journey, and far and away the greatest album they’ve done so far.
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Dec 11, 2013This is an ambitious, cohesive effort from the Sheffield band, and its complex and spacious sound is both beautifully engaging and highly rewarding.
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Oct 15, 2013Sheffield's ever-progressive 65daysofstatic have outdone themselves here, loading their fifth album of megaton guitar instrumentals with electronic styles.
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Oct 15, 2013Wild Light as a whole represents the band’s most ambitious work to date; it’s a meticulously crafted and admirably complex record from a band that are constantly thrilling in their unpredictability.
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Oct 15, 2013Here, it seems like 65dos are challenging themselves in a way that they are finally happy with, evoking the confidence of 'Exploding and matching that with the energy and intensity of The Fall of Math.
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Oct 15, 2013Soaring arrangements and long tracks create a journey, as engaging as it is dramatic.
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Oct 15, 2013What the album lacks in genuine surprises--it features fewer floor-filling basslines than its makers’ previous LP ‘proper’, 2010’s dance-designed ‘We Were Exploding Anyway’--it more than makes up for in comprehensive consistency.
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Under The RadarDec 4, 2013Promising work. [Nov-Dec 2013, p.99]
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Q MagazineOct 15, 2013The pomp they derive from taking dour post-rock to a rave--notably here in Prisms--is satisfying. [Nov 2013, p.101]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 21
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Mixed: 3 out of 21
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Negative: 1 out of 21
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Sep 2, 2023Their best album by a country mile. Sounds incredible live to. The first 4-5 opening tracks are nothing short of perfection
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Aug 2, 2015
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May 23, 2014