Jon HopkinsBest Jon Hopkins Albums Ranked

Singularity

nme

10

“A thumping, mind-meltingly good night out was the subject of Jon Hopkins‘ Mercury-shortlisted 2013 album ‘Immunity‘. This time, on album five, the electronica mastermind wants you to have a blissful psychedelic experience, and he’s here to guide you through from beginning to end. Though ‘Singularity”s 62-minutes can get extremely heavy – Hopkins fondly calls its gargantuan centrepiece ‘Everything ”

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loudandquiet

9.0

“We’re at a point where it’d almost be disappointing if Jon Hopkins‘ latest work wasn’t built around a higher concept. Over the last twenty three years, his obsession with sound has been academic, technical, classical, exploratory and experimental. It’s taken him from all-consuming studio sessions to Ketamine trips in Amazonian caves to becoming an unassuming poster boy for a growing techno-chemica”

Singularity

loudandquiet

9.0

“‘Singularity’ begins and ends on the same note. It’s a small, seemingly trivial detail but it’s one that subtly and instantly defines the album. Hopkins’ initial vision for it was one of hyper-connection; each track interlinked to create an ecosystem where beats emerged from melody and bass bloomed from atmospheres in kind of amorphous evolution. But that didn’t happen. Frustrated by the technica”

Immunity

pitchfork

8.5

“Jon Hopkins has hovered around the edges of dance and indie rock for several years, playing with Brian Eno, Coldplay, and King Creosote—and even seeming to take a backseat on his own records. But Immunity, the producer’s breakthrough fourth album, bounds and writhes with its own life force.”

Singularity

pitchfork

8.3

“Pitched between heat-seeking acid house and ambient bliss, the techno auteur’s first album since 2013 is a beat-music odyssey that thrums with spiritual resonance.”

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exclaim

8.0

“Jon Hopkins' music is filled with empathy and compassion, even if it often (consciously) struggles with maintaining composure. It is conceptual and complex, yet also astonishingly simple at times, and this juxtaposition is what inevitably draws other artists (most notably Eno, Coldplay and David Holmes) into his orbit. In 2021, he released Music for Psychedelic Therapy, an ambient album designed t”