Metascore
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Universal acclaim - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
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  1. Feb 26, 2025
    90
    List of Demands is both archival and of the present -- engrossing and energizing, to be blasted from every boombox.
  2. Record Collector
    Mar 24, 2025
    80
    Perhaps the strongest work yet from a unique talent. [Apr 2025, p.102]
  3. Mojo
    Feb 26, 2025
    80
    Born from Locks' work with prison inmates, the likes of Distance are intricately funky collages, not a million miles away from recent tracks by Billy Woods. [Apr 2025, p.84]
  4. The Wire
    Feb 26, 2025
    80
    The music is smooth, the message is simple and the demands aren’t easy, but they’re vital. [Mar 2025, p.51]
  5. Feb 26, 2025
    77
    Locks lets the past speak by keeping the grit and the grain in his samples, conjuring the dust of the archives. Like Madlib, another jazz-influenced samplerist, he leaves the seams in his loops and builds meta-rhythms from the clicks of his edit points.

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