Laurel HaloBest Laurel Halo Albums Ranked

Atlas

pastemagazine

8.5

“The acclaimed electronic musician synthesizes digital and acoustic instrumentation to generate a hazy emotional map across 10 songs.”

Dust

pitchfork

8.2

“On her third album for Hyperdub, Laurel Halo continues to resist classification and deflect interpretation by treating the human voice like a synthetic material to be molded and shattered.”

Atlas

pitchfork

8.1

“The experimental artist’s fifth solo album is among her best, a beautiful collection of minimalist ambient compositions in which no line extends for long without dissolving into an inky blot.”

Atlas

loudandquiet

8.0

“Laurel Halo is a Michigan born, now LA-based composer, producer and DJ whose latest record Atlas is perhaps one of the most high-brow offerings to today’s new release climate. Self-described as a ‘subconscious’ journey through time and space, Atlas belongs nowhere else than in some of East London’s finest juice bars, decorated only by a plethora of exotic, yet flourishing houseplants. I can imagin”

Raw Silk Uncut Wood

pitchfork

8.0

“Laurel Halo’s most ambient—and most linear—record to date swims in mysterious electro-acoustic textures; it marks a departure from her usual mode of thorny, cerebral electronic composition.”

Raw Silk Uncut Wood

nme

8.0

“Laurel Halo, the acclaimed American producer and DJ now based in Berlin, comes across in interviews as likeable, funny and engaged, but you could be forgiven for feeling that her experimental approach to music is rather more highfalutin. After a couple of EPs that twisted the Detroit techno sound into ambient, muted contortions more likely to make you scratch your chin than move your feet, she tur”