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  • Summary: This is the debut full-length release for grime producer Louis Carnell.
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  1. Positive: 8 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
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  1. Oct 13, 2015
    82
    Safe is an incongruous blend of calm and anxiety. It's also full of raw human emotion.
  2. Oct 13, 2015
    80
    His is an askew version of experimental electronic music that is as engaging a vision as it is singular.
  3. The Wire
    Oct 13, 2015
    80
    It carries with it the expressivity of darker electronic take on popular forms, and exchanges the cliches of this UK habit for new and complex alien intimacies. [Oct 2015, p.49]
  4. Mojo
    Oct 27, 2015
    80
    Louis Carnell crafts grime's own I Hear A New World. [Dec 2015, p.91]
  5. Nov 3, 2015
    80
    With Safe, Visionist has created a work so forward-thinking it's positively post-modern.
  6. Oct 13, 2015
    79
    Diaphanous of texture but heavy of spirit, Safe revolves upon this tension, the pressure point of a soul under strain.
  7. Oct 14, 2015
    70
    Despite the fact that Carnell appears on the cover of his own record drained of both pigment and life, this record’s full of both--moments of calm that justify the storm, peaceful lapping waves that follow the tempest.

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