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- Summary: This is the latest full-length solo release from Berlin-based British electronic producer Shackleton.
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- Record Label: AD 93
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Apr 14, 2026The centre is hard to hold and purposefully so. This is an album that exists in dream states, oneiric in its exploration of textures. And as soon as there’s something approaching a collage approach, like on ‘Crushing Realities’ or opener ‘Elemental Dream’, it is swept away in favour of something more liquid.
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Apr 14, 2026In some ways, Euphoria Bound is the most Shackleton-sounding Shackleton record in some time, but there are still new references and sonic detours on display.
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The WireApr 14, 2026Timing these ten tight tracks around the five or six minute mark, lead single "Crushing Realities", "The Dream In Fragments" and "The Soul Of Everything" move with a surreal, transcendent pressure transportive and gamelan-heavy throughout. [Apr 2026, p.62]
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Apr 14, 2026Despite the outward sameness of the music, there’s a wealth of detail to be discovered.