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  • Summary: The latest full-length release from Berlin-based Lyra Pramuk features lyrics by poet Nadia Marcus and improvisations by Sonar Quartett.
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  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
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  1. Jun 17, 2025
    80
    Hymnal is a planet of sound, teeming with life, that seems even more habitable than Fountain—a bountiful ecosystem experiencing a permanent May and June.
  2. The Wire
    Jun 17, 2025
    80
    The oozing synths of “Umbra” slide deliciously in and out of phase to an ethereal keening. .... Elsewhere, she hacks and revolves samples into chittering humus – an overripe garden of imagination, bustling with enthusiasm, circuitry and life. [Jun 2025, p.64]
  3. Mojo
    Jun 17, 2025
    80
    Hymnal flows like diaphanous silk, the Berlin-based artist's otherworldly vocals stitching a sensuous golden thread throughout. [Aug 2025, p.85]
  4. Jun 17, 2025
    80
    Her deliberate, fully present process resulted in the sort of opulent, heady music that you’d actually expect mushrooms to make. From the very first notes of opener ‘Rewild’, the music betrays an intoxicatingly organic aura.
  5. Uncut
    Jun 20, 2025
    70
    Pramuk takes listeners on a rich inner-space odyssey. [Aug 2025, p.37]
  6. Jun 17, 2025
    60
    Complicated and dense, Hymnal demands deep listening – no bad thing – but its repetitive, jerking movements and myriad layers often become samey and numbing, with Pramuk’s fascinating ideas buried in the murk.