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Jul 21, 2016The whole album is perfectly paced, with hypnotic grooves and simple songwriting: density and space are constantly played off each other, helping to create something that should be taken in as a whole. It’s been well worth the wait.
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Jul 15, 2016The Soft Bounce may not be the best album of the year, but it’s certainly one of the most enjoyable listens to come along within these first seven months. And with its lack of date-stamping, it’s surely one to which we can return time and again without the slightest whiff of nostalgia for 2016, 1996 or 1966.
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Q MagazineJun 29, 2016Against the odds, Norris and Alkan really do possess the magic touch. [Aug 2016, p.108]
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Jun 30, 2016On The Soft Bounce, he and Alkan have honed that idea [fusion of 60s psychedelia and acid house] into an album that uses a deep knowledge of the past to find its own unique niche in the present.
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Jun 29, 2016Collaborating with vocalists such as Hannah Peel, Blaine Harrison of The Mystery Jets, Euros Childs and Jane Weaver, the musical styles glide from genre to genre with impressive ease. The approach would have resulted in a patchy album in most other people’s hands, but The Soft Bounce makes such eclecticism sound like a natural thing.
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UncutJun 29, 2016While they lack a reedy falsetto, guest vocalists such as Blaine Harrison, Euros Child and Holly Miranda bring discrete personalities to bear on songs which trippily track the lightly fantastic. [Aug 2016, p.72]
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Jul 18, 2016The Soft Bounce is more about variation than mind-warping, though that doesn't mean there aren't moments of fringe-frolicking.