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2013-02-14

THE WIRE / UK

REVIEW: OFF THE RECORD
By Joseph Stannard

(...) "The Tuning of the World", for example, confronts the listener with something distinct from retro-futuristic reverie. Here, Bartos acknowledges the universal pull of mortality with lines such as "I wish I could believe in God" and "I hope I die gracefully". To hear these lines sung gently through a vocoder is to be moved beyond all expectation. (...)