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80

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  • Summary: The latest full-length release from Canadian indie artist Jon McKiel was produced with Jay Crocker.
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  1. Mojo
    Jun 21, 2024
    80
    Hex isn’t really about individual tracks, though: it’s about mood and feel. Overwhelmingly, the feel is good. [Aug 2024, p.86]
  2. Record Collector
    Jun 21, 2024
    80
    A remarkable and imaginative album. [Jul 2024, p.106]
  3. Jun 21, 2024
    80
    In Hex’s 34 minutes Mckiel ventures far and wide, but always brings you back to the strangeness of seeing something familiar in a new light, wondering at the possibilities.
  4. Jun 21, 2024
    76
    McKiel finds humanity in a bit of confusion, and on this oddly affecting album he comes across as a medium, closely attuned to the unknown and unknowable as he deciphers missives from another plane.
  5. Uncut
    Jun 21, 2024
    70
    Sometimes a more shadowy affair, with McKiel’s voice on the title track reverberating in what sounds like a deep cave, its woodwind and wriggling bassline emerging from different chambers to establish a Beta Band shuffle. Elsewhere things are dusky rather than dark. [Jun 2024, p.37]