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- Record Label: Hyperdub
- Release Date: Jun 7, 2024
- Artist(s): Nueen
- Summary: The debut full-length collaboration between Iceboy Violet and Nueen about the highs and lows of a relationship features guest appearances by Bennettiscoming, Dawuna, and Harriet Morley.
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- Record Label: Hyperdub
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Jun 17, 2024Nueen’s understated drill elements bring a benevolent, tense space that Iceboy Violet has complemented with their lyrical expanse.
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Jun 17, 2024On You Said You'd Hold My Hand Through The Fire, they lay bare their heartbreak through squalls of sound, managing softness even in the album's more hardened sonic environments.
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The WireJun 17, 2024There’s less noise here than on Not A Dream. Nueen’s production layers thick, soft synth pads with fluttering percussive elements, smudging swung tempos back into breathing soundscapes of vocal samples and sticky rolling saturation. [Jul 2024, p.54]
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Jun 17, 2024Dense snapshot lyrics put us in their head state, somewhere between reflection and rumination. As always with grief, there aren’t easy answers. But that act of picking at the cadaver leads to Iceboy Violet’s most focused and affecting set of songs, one that honours the humanity of its subject through bare writing.