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- Summary: The latest full-length solo release from composer/pianist Max Richter features field recordings from his travels and around the rural studio he recorded the album.
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- Record Label: Decca
- Genre(s): Classical
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Sep 12, 2024I genuinely mean that as a compliment: music doesn’t always have to be hard work, and Richter’s latest offering, ‘In A Landscape’, feels like the opposite of work.
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Sep 12, 2024Richter’s approach is almost too cut-and-dry; there’s none of the messiness that comes with processing emotion or the tension and release that defines catharsis. But closer “Movement, Before all Flowers” offers a welcome surprise.
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UncutSep 12, 2024Pure electronica, like the understated “Only Silent Words” and viscous “A Time Mirror (Biophony)”, is appealingly reflective too, but often one yearns for the unexpected, which “A Colour Field (Holocene)”’s slowly developing melody and a series of “Life Study” vignettes fortunately provide. [Oct 2024, p.41]
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Oct 2, 2024The album is certain to satisfy Richter's fans from all around the classical-to-pop spectrum.
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Sep 12, 2024While nothing here feels as urgent or frenetic as his 2002 debut, Memoryhouse, selections such as “And Some Will Fall” and “Late and Soon” rank among the most beautiful in Richter’s catalog. However, In a Landscape doesn’t always work. Richter staggers a series of nine “Life Studies” throughout the 19 tracks—comprised in part of tape delays, reverb, and vocoder, these short ambient sections break the natural flow of beauty.
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Nov 22, 2024While the record is undeniably beautiful, there are instances where the repetition feels overly familiar, particularly for those acquainted with Richter’s previous works.