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- Summary: This is the debut full-length release for grime producer Louis Carnell.
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- Record Label: Pan
- Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock, Club/Dance
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Oct 13, 2015Safe is an incongruous blend of calm and anxiety. It's also full of raw human emotion.
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Oct 13, 2015His is an askew version of experimental electronic music that is as engaging a vision as it is singular.
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The WireOct 13, 2015It 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]
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MojoOct 27, 2015Louis Carnell crafts grime's own I Hear A New World. [Dec 2015, p.91]
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Nov 3, 2015With Safe, Visionist has created a work so forward-thinking it's positively post-modern.
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Oct 13, 2015Diaphanous of texture but heavy of spirit, Safe revolves upon this tension, the pressure point of a soul under strain.
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Oct 14, 2015Despite 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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