★★★★★
When I saw "Ocean Death" live last June, I was damned near convinced it was indicative of producer Will Wiesenfeld taking a creative leap, trying his hand at something distinctly darker. But no, the song is singularly sinister- its bass churns ahead at a rate more predictable than anything Baths has penned before...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-05-18
★★★★★
On Cerulean, Baths' 2010 debut LP, songs sounded splintered, shot through with percussive interruptions that were unwieldy yet ear-catching. These arrangements made Will Wiesenfeld, then loosely associated with Los Angeles' Low End Theory scene, stand out in a company of seemingly likeminded beat-heads...
- pitchfork.com
2014-05-07
★★★★★
Release Date: May 28, 2013 For anyone that has listened to Baths' debut, Cerulean, would be caught off guard by the drastic mood swing taking place in his sophomore release, Obsidian. While Cerulean feels fluffy, light, and perhaps child-like at times, Obsidian contains menacing and morbid tones. Obsidian tackles tough issues like depression and suicide without losing any of Cerulean's multi-leveled electronics...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-09-09
★★★★★
In Seneca's version of her story, Oedipus's Phaedra--wife to archetypal anti-hero dude, Theseus, and stepmother to his pretty-boy bastard, Hippolytus--has a problem. She's in love with the kid, in spite of his solid track record of flagrant misogyny, and, you know, her own marriage to his dad. I won't ruin the play if you haven't rushed out to your local sunken gardens to watch a performance, but I'll say one thing about Phaedra: she knows her lust and infatuation have gotten the best of her,...
- cokemachineglow.com
2013-07-23
★★★★★
It's been a testing time for Baths, aka 24-year-old Californian Will Wiesenfeld. Fresh from touring his 2010 debut LP, Cerulean, he was struck down by a dire bout of E. coli, leaving him wholly debilitated; bedridden for months on end. The result of this extended convalescence is Obsidian, an altogether more stark, introspective affair than its elder sibling, shaped partly by its creator's depressed disposition and partly by a wilful determination on Wiesenfeld's part to explore darker, more...
- thequietus.com
2013-07-10
★★★★★
When Baths' debut album came out, I was telling everyone who'd listen that it was hands down the best album of 2010. Cerulean was somewhere between a cutesy, bubbly hip-hop beat tape and an inventive piece of Four Tet-esque lush electronica, made with (and vicariously inspiring) a child-like, wide-eyed wonder at the beauty of the world, achieving that feeling with every single track. It still feels like a warm and beautiful embrace...
- www.noripcord.com
2013-06-04
★★★★★
LA-based Baths' Will Wiesenfeld's pent up frustrations over artistic identity and, more viscerally, a frustrating case of E coli have rendered his new album Obsidian a far cry from the post-chillwave glee of Cerulean and tracks like Aminals. Instead, while the songs on Obsidian are danceable, Wiesenfeld veers away from being a DJ and towards being a quintessential studio electronic composer, ultimately making an album as dark and broken as its coal-miner black cover...
- www.musicomh.com
2013-06-04
★★★★★
As electronic music expands exponentially, with its democratising force enfranchising a global network of bedrooms beatheads, anonymity reigns. Last week's Twitter piss-around from Caribou, mathematician turned maestro producer, teasing the long-standing 'Four Tet is Burial' joke/hypothesis sent the rumour mill swirling again, acting as a case study for the pervasive possibility of owning merely a half-decent laptop and an internet connection...
- drownedinsound.com
2013-06-01
★★★★★
Available on: Anticon
In 2010, Will Wiesenfeld marked the end of one project and began another, releasing The Fabric under his Post-Foetus moniker and then inaugurating Baths with the Cerulean LP. While The Fabric is a gentle, electronic-tinged indie pop record, Cerulean bristles with off-kilter hip-hop beats and glistening sonics.
On Obsidian, Wiesenfeld has forged a third way that is somewhere between his previous efforts...
- www.factmag.com
2013-06-01
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