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“ It’s probably their best album yet, and the titles aren’t bad either ”
John Fordham, The Guardian January 2014 review of Lope And Antilope
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“ This album is an incredible achievement in which there is not one bad aspect. A Masterpiece of temperance and understatement, a career defining moment in which we all fall in love with ‘The Blessing’ ”
Philip Allen, Louder Than War January 2014 review of Lope And Antilope
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“ an extremely powerful, memorable, atmospheric and original album, built on the jazz tradition, but to which the label ‘jazz’ is pretty much an irrelevance. One of the best records I’ve heard in a while ”
Oliver Arditi March 2014 review of Lope And Antilope
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“ The only element to expect is more understated intelligent brilliance ”
David Kushar, Spiral Earth February 2014 review of Lope And Antilope
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“ it’s perhaps their least classifiable album to date, certainly the most interesting, and arguably the best… they remain one of the most interesting bands around – and a terrific live act ”
Ian Mann, The Jazz Mann January 2014 review of Lope And Antilope
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“ Get The Blessing have successfully achieved in Lope and Antilope the right balance between what once was and what now is ”
God is in the TV January 2012 review of Lope And Antilope
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“ This is an album to listen to and revisit, full of creative interplay, sonic tricks, clever minimal solos and huge and varied atmosphere ”
Martin Price, Fatea January 2014 review of Lope And Antilope
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“ bristles with more improvising and ensemble ingenuity and the result is an album that manages to unleash the momentum trip hop hampered by the constraints of downtempo dance music could never really tackle ”
Marlbank January 2014 review of Lope And Antilope
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“ The eccentricity of Get the Blessing’s disparate influences have, with this album, congealed into a captivating, compulsively listenable singularity ”
Shaun Brady, Jazz Times November 2012 review of OCDC
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“ moody as a moonlit street, and instantly recognisable ”
Ivan Hewitt, Daily Telegraph March 2012 review of OCDC
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