• Record Label: AD 93
  • Release Date: Jan 30, 2026
Metascore
82

Universal acclaim - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
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  1. The Wire
    Apr 14, 2026
    80
    Timing 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]
  2. Apr 14, 2026
    80
    In 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.
  3. Apr 14, 2026
    80
    The 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.
  4. Apr 14, 2026
    76
    Despite the outward sameness of the music, there’s a wealth of detail to be discovered.

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