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- Summary: The British noise-rock band had artists as Andy Bell, Factory Floor, Hookworms and Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite remix its 2015 debut release, Dying.
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- Record Label: Sonic Cathedral
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Apr 13, 2016Dead doesn't so much kill Spectres' songs with these remixes as reanimate them and turn them loose on their creators, and the world.
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Apr 13, 2016Ultimately, for a more cohesive and less exhausting listen, the most accessible parts of Dead could have been crunched-down into a more easily-digestible mini-album.
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Apr 13, 2016Dead may not improve on Dying’s blueprint, but it is far more than just an interesting experiment. It rigidly follows the band’s self-sabotaging ethic, whilst giving genuinely imaginative versions of songs that were never meant to be remixed.
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UncutApr 13, 2016Hookworms twist "The Sky Of all Places" into a Mary Chain approximation of Metal Machine Music and Factory Floor make desiccated disco mincemeat of "sink," while Loop guru Robert Hampson, Death In Vegas's Richard Fearless, Ride's Andy Bell and Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite demonstrate the oldies' appetite for deconstruction.[Apr 2016, p.79]
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Apr 13, 2016The names here deliver so much that this compilation wins the bloody bout on points.
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MojoMay 24, 2016Vision Fortune and then Spectres themselves serve up two slices of white noise, and even the hardiest listener may question the necessity of any further submissions. More substantial things arrive further on. [Jul 2016, p.93]
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Q MagazineApr 13, 2016Most of these versions bear only the scantest similarity to the originals. [Jun 2016, p.116]
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