★★★★★
Todd Terje, or Terje Olsen to give him his non-showbiz handle, arrived many many years ago, with a selection of re-edits and mixes, re-tooling the likes of 'Love Is The Drug' and Chic's 'I Want Your Love' for the modern set. He co-wrote the Robbie Williams chart-topper 'Candy', and has collaborated with Franz Ferdinand among others. His own music has been mainly all-killer, with a string of essential numbers (some here, some - like the amazing 'Lanzarote' - absent) and EPs galore...
- thequietus.com
2014-06-19
★★★★★
If the last 10 years have proved anything, it's that Norwegian DJ and producer Todd Terje knows how to fill dance floors. But, rather surprisingly, this king of neo-disco--despite spreading his infectious electronica across countless EPs and remixes--has never released a full-length until now. He arrives with a vibrant LP that digs deep into his background of electro-eclecticism, mining a rich seam of influences from funk, house, and disco to jazz, easy listening, and even muzak...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2014-05-29
★★★★★
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Label: Olsen
Todd Terje's debut LP has been a long time coming. He's been producing dance music since long before I had ever heard the phrase "space disco," and if that's the first time you're reading that term, I beg you not to leave quite yet...
- www.absolutepunk.net
2014-05-15
★★★★★
Todd Terje, It's Album Time
It would have been easy for It's Album Time to be only half as good as it turned out to be, because resting laurels on an innovative idea is always easier than mining the contents to discover the depth. Luckily, Norwegian producer/DJ/facial hair enthusiast Todd Terje cares too much. He always has...
- prettymuchamazing.com
2014-04-22
★★★★★
Though he's been DJing, producing and remixing for a decade now, Todd Terje is a man so anonymous, even doesn't care how you pronounce his surname. "I stopped correcting people many years ago," he recently told an interviewer, with a shrug. But the Norwegian producer's debut album is packed with personality, its retro-futuristic, cosmic-disco grooves forming a clear picture of Terje as life and soul of the party...
- www.nme.com
2014-04-14
★★★★★
This Norwegian producer's debut full-length is an adventurous, irreverent blend of space disco, motorik prog, jazz-funk, '60s lounge, samba and more, featuring playful, masterfully constructed songs fleshed out with colorful synths, propulsive beats and effervescent melodies along with occasional lush strings, guitars, pianos, woodwinds, live drums and other instrumentation. 4/11/2014
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- kexp.org
2014-04-12
★★★★★
Todd Terje is one of "those guys"--a guy whose work you probably recognize even if you can't exactly place the name. There is nothing wrong with that, but any artist with a modicum of talent and ego would obviously want to fix that sooner than later. Norwegian-born Terje Olsen's whole aesthetic has been reappropriating '70s and '80s dance music into a modern context, completely unafraid to line himself up with such oft-bemoaned tropes such as classic disco in order to make his name...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-04-12
★★★★★
Nine years after "Eurodans," his 2004 breakthrough EP, Todd Terje is finally releasing his debut album: It's Album Time. Given the wry grin of that title and Bendik Kaltenborn's outrageous cover art, it's only fitting that It's Album Time is a saucy trip through all of the influences that Terje has nodded to over his career. Across its 60 minutes, there are loose-hipped lounge tracks, funky jazz noodlings, Italo epics and humid piano house stormers...
- www.residentadvisor.net
2014-04-09
★★★★★
Nine years after "Eurodans," his 2004 breakthrough EP, Todd Terje is finally releasing his debut album: It's Album Time. Given the wry grin of that title and Bendik Kaltenborn's outrageous cover art, it's only fitting that It's Album Time is a saucy trip through all of the influences that Terje has nodded to over his career. Across its 60 minutes, there are loose-hipped lounge tracks, funky jazz noodlings, Italo epics and humid piano house stormers...
- www.residentadvisor.net
2014-04-09