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67

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  • Summary: This is the solo debut for the former Working For A Nuclear Free City keyboardist, Phil Kay.
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  1. Positive: 2 out of 4
  2. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. 80
    Zoetrope manages to ably explore both shades of contemporary electronic music; the house-tinged, ecstasy laden cracks of one school and the strokey beard experimentations of the other.
  2. May 21, 2014
    70
    The best place to file Zoetrope would probably be on the shelf marked 'albums worth a punt if you have a few bob spare'.
  3. May 21, 2014
    60
    What King Of The Mountains manages to achieve isn’t particularly new but there’s a fair amount of admirable craft going on that doesn’t come across as too robotic or synthetic. But it feels too safe, and lacks cohesion and structure.
  4. Q Magazine
    May 21, 2014
    60
    The results ate at once intimate and expansive, layering vintage synthesizer riffs over fidgety percussion. [Jun 2014, p.112]