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Point
by Cornelius
ALBUM RANKINGS:
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.
Overall Rating:
3.1680
Avg. Critic Score:
3.0581
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Entertainment Weekly11 irresistible sound collages that feature driving beats, amiable guitar acoustics, and a quadraphonic sense of aural play that encourages rampant headphone abuse
Stylus MagazineWhen I was 8 or 9 years old our school had a guest speaker come and talk to us about the years he had spent living in China. ...more
Yahoo! MusicCornelius ', aka Keigo Oyamada, music inhabits a space that is uniquely his own. Sure there are similarities in the lightness of production in places to artists such as Yoshinori Sunahara (whose studios were used to record this album). ...more
Stylus MagazineMore rounded and less determinedly schizo than Fantasma, Point is a great album of delicious odd-pop made by a whimsically modest genius. ...more
PopMattersPoint might actually be a perfect album, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to end up loving it. Nothing sticks out; nothing disturbs the ear or the mind or the heart; nothing is objectionable. The flow might actually be TOO impressive, and the circular structure admits of no human fallibility. ...more
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The Onion (A.V. Club)
Given his prior eclecticism, it's stunning to hear the unified, boldly conceptual approach Cornelius takes on his new Point....read the complete review at The Onion (A.V. Club)
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ShakingThrough.net
Point opens with the sound of chirping birds breaking through a technological barrier (perhaps pecking at wires strung from Cornelius' Nakameguro studio), followed by a brief tonal respite and ultimately the fusion of nature and technology into a...read the complete review at ShakingThrough.net
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Neumu.net
All you can really do is sit back and politely applaud....read the complete review at Neumu.net
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The Austin Chronicle
A genuine one-man-band, Cornelius (aka Keigo Oyamada) is writer, producer, and instrument of his own choice. His debut, 1998'sFantasma, is a diverse collage of musical elements heading in 10 different directions, but managing a sense of coherence....read the complete review at The Austin Chronicle
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The A.V. Club
Japanese audio artist Cornelius compiled the best of his early experiments in dreampop-electronica for his 1997 U.S. debut Fantasma, which jumped from sample-heavy sound installations to grinding guitar-punk to spacey prog-rock with the restlessness of a...read the complete review at The A.V. Club
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