Two Lone SwordsmenBest Two Lone Swordsmen Albums Ranked

Tiny Reminders

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9.3

“Two Lone Swordsmen have never been less than shrewd predators. Just like the spider's web, their strategy for securing prey is utterly elegant and jaw-droppingly efficient. Rather than churning out remix after remix like Timo Maas or Junior Vasquez, they spin their unique style, take cover, and wait for us to pass by and become entangled in their sticky electro funk. This isn't to say that the du”

Stay Down

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9.3

“In the 1990s, one producer excelled all others in seizing upon a spanking brand new sound concept that many others have since tried tirelessly to emulate. His name is not Sean Combs, "Mutt" Lange, John McEntire, Steve Albini, or even the RZA. You could argue that the honor of defining a decade should go to Prince Paul, but that skit thing just pisses me off now. Sure, it worked on *Three Feet High”

From the Double Gone Chapel

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7.9

“Some people are never satisfied. One by one, just about every established laptop artist has abused their popularity by breaking out into spontaneous song or rediscovering half a talent for, like, glockenspiel, and assuming we're interested. What is this epidemic of narcissistic self-reference afflicting today's electro-auteur? Is it a kind of masturbatory ego deconstruction? Or simply an instincti”

Further Reminders

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6.3

“Following the deserved attention of their great album *Tiny Reminders*, Two Lone Swordsman followed last year with the obligatory remix collection. Credit is due for avoiding calling on a diverse cast, mostly of relative unknowns, who take liberties with the source material. Some tracks here incorporate guitar and vocals, while others push the neo-electro of *Tiny Reminders* into hardcore glitch t”