★★★★★
The Range's tracks remind me of millipedes: Simple shapes in garish colors that bustle on crazy-legged gaits. "Washingtons", the last track on his new Panasonic EP, exemplifies the electronic producer's knack for texturing glossy tones with busy, off-kilter rhythms. The synthetic harp melody unfurls neatly, but the percussion beneath it scrambles and writhes, providing an antic locomotion...
- pitchfork.com
2014-03-26
★★★★★
Albums like Nonfiction, the first full-length from producer James Hinton (aka the Range), never get the credit they deserve: They're too neat, too industrious, too polite--too many of the qualities we look for in coworkers and roommates and not enough of the ones we look for in artists. "I studied some math in school," Hinton told us in a recent Rising interview. Math! Terrific. A sentence later he brings up his admiration for soft-rocker Bruce Hornsby...
- pitchfork.com
2013-10-31
★★★★★
Bass music's permeable borders have provided an especially fertile ground for Rhode Island upstart James Hinton, who has racked up a respectable buzz in recent months with his musical exploits as The Range. Dabbling in jungle, footwork, stoner head-nodders, warped beats, and melodic chillout, Hinton specializes in wrangling together a celebratory pastiche of styles...
- www.xlr8r.com
2013-10-18
★★★★★
James Hinton (aka the Range) is the latest producer to serve up a mix'n'match offering of different genres -- a nod to the handful of styles he skilfully incorporates into his first full-length, . Though it falls a touch on the ambient side, Hinton's ability to almost seamlessly weave together elements of hip-hop, grime and jungle is what makes so distinct from other similar records, which suffer from genre overload and disconnect...
- exclaim.ca
2013-10-16
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