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  • Artist(s): Blake Mills
  • Summary: This is the debut full-length release for the collaboration between Pino Palladino and Blake Mills, who also produced the album.
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  • Record Label: Impulse!
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Experimental Rock, Neo-Psychedelia, Instrumental Rock
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  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
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  1. Uncut
    Mar 23, 2021
    90
    Transfigures smoothly from one hallucinatory half-style to another. ... The playing is both adventurous and textural, and the surprising, soothing result would have made a fine release on Eno's '70s Obscure label. [May 2021, p.31]
  2. Mar 23, 2021
    80
    The album certainly leaves you with a sense of dislocation and déjà vu, as if hearing musical avenues open, meander deliciously, then abruptly slam shut. It’s disorientating, surprising, at times deeply funky, and often very beautiful.
  3. Mojo
    Mar 23, 2021
    80
    Limber, spacey music, pitched somewhere between jazz, funk and ambience, in the company of an innovative new class of sessioners. [May 2021, p.87]
  4. Mar 23, 2021
    74
    Without a lead melody to hone in on, the album’s ever-shifting arrangements can sometimes feel uncertain, like carrying on with a scavenger hunt after forgetting the hiding places. But heard in full, Notes With Attachments’ restlessness sounds more like determination: an insistence on fitting as many ideas into as short a time as possible.
  5. Mar 23, 2021
    70
    Notes with Attachments is a strange record, but it is also welcoming thanks to an unhurried pace, colorful yet economical production, and restrained dynamics, all carried by the canny, warmly humorous musical instincts of its creators.