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The WireApr 3, 2019The music resonates with a clarity Treanor had not yet achieved in the past, where the glassy shards of “ATAXIA A2” meet the staggered modulations and condensed hi-hats of “ATAXIA D1”, and ultimately reveal a unique and unexpected humanity. [Apr 2019, p.64]
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Mar 22, 2019On his debut album, Treanor has mastered a whole new sonic vocabulary that gradually destabilizes and erodes existing principles and practices of electronic music to create something wholly unique.
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Mar 20, 2019If you encounter this in a club and can pontificate, or even stay still, then you’re made of sterner stuff than I.
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Mar 20, 2019Dense and nearly overwhelming at times but always following a linear progression, ATAXIA is an exciting, challenging release which charts an advanced evolution of dance culture.
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Mar 20, 2019Programmatic as it is, ATAXIA has style and personality.
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Mar 20, 2019ATAXIA has moments of all three, running the gamut across funk, feverish entertainment, and frustratingly dry-eyed experiments. Throughout, however, it remains startlingly original—a powerful piece of work from a sonic adventurer of rare intellectual clarity.
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Mar 20, 2019The steep conceptual angle imposes a significant hurdle on casual listening, but Treanor rewards engagement with hypnotic, off-centred rhythmic cycles, and elements like the Nauman sample only represent a small portion of the runtime (Lancaster's assertions fall off before the two-minute mark).