★★★★★
The name was intended to echo the kind of boom-bap hip-hop which now gets called 'classic' but was on the chronically bleeding edge in 1989, when Nightmares On Wax began. Yet over 25 years and seven albums, condensed here into a two-CD career overview, the dreamstate commonly evoked has been less a nightmare, more a big, floaty marshmallow pillow...
- www.nme.com
2014-06-16
★★★★★
Warp Records veteran Nightmares on Wax (aka George Evelyn) makes some very polite funk these days. His new album, Feelin' Good, is perfect for drinking a nice glass of warm milk to before curling up on the couch to read a gardening book but would be pretty hazardous to listen to while operating heavy machinery. There are moments when things threaten to break a sweat, like the percolating reggae disco of Now Is The Time, but ultimately those moments fail to live up to any initial promise...
- nowtoronto.com
2013-10-03
★★★★★
It's fair to say that George Evelyn has earned the right to be feelin' good. After helping define the early days of Warp with his experimental bleep techno, the one constant member of Nightmares On Wax soon grew jaded by the hard-edged beats that defined the late '80s electronic zeitgeist and went off in search of something else. Now, 22 years, six full-lengths and countless Sunday smoking sessions later, it's fair to say he found that something else and truly made it his own...
- www.residentadvisor.net
2013-09-27
★★★★★
After Pretty Lights fashioned Nightmare on Wax' s catchy funk exploration "You Wish" into a remixed exclamation of feeling good, producer George Evelyn gained inspiration to spread a similar positivity under his turntables, resulting in his first album in five years, Feelin Good. While positivity is an accessible escape within music, his comeback surfaces nothing new, accumulating few tracks that stand out and many an overkill...
- consequenceofsound.net
2013-09-29
★★★★★
Available on: Warp LP From way back in the '88 bleep techno days when it was a duo, to the thick hip hop of his last offering Thought So..., George Evelyn's music as Nightmares On Wax has always had a brightness to it. But in Feelin Good, his latest album for Warp, this has become something of a dichotomy. Evelyn has lived in Ibiza for the last seven years, running a successful night at the island's oldest club and releasing records when he wishes...
- www.factmag.com
2013-09-26
★★★★★
Nightmares on Wax has long been my go-to when it comes to chilling out, knocking back a few brews on a Sunday afternoon or as the soundtrack for an early A.M night cap. Given the necessity of a good tune in these finer moments of life, I had high hopes that Feelin' Good would deliver some rad new material to put on rotation. And it has not let me down. The latest endeavour from Nightmares on Wax opens with gentle percussion and a downtempo bass line...
- www.theaureview.com
2013-09-25
★★★★★
'Feelin' Good' is a metaphysical nightcap where a party threatens to break out. On a sticky back-to-mine, the evergreen George Evelyn aka Nightmares On Wax takes a reading of the buzz in the room, cues up crisp funk shuffles ('Tapestry', 'Now Is The Time') and hip-hop acknowledgements, before tidying the lounge with soul numbers, trip-hop kernels and instrumentals that feather down to put bodies and minds at rest. A homecoming of sorts to the road trip of 2008's 'Thought So.....
- www.clashmusic.com
2013-09-19
★★★★★
The best parties all have soundtracks and invariably, at some point, the frivolities will feature a band who play something so chilled out and achingly soulful that you might well struggle to identify them. Ask enough times what that band is and there's a good chance you'll discover it to be Nightmares On Wax.
Since the early 90s, NOW project mastermind George Evelyn has been taking his band on the road and steadily feeding us album after album of solid downtempo gold...
- thelineofbestfit.com
2013-09-17
★★★★★
Nightmares On Wax Feelin' GoodBy Daryl KeatingSkanking back into the limelight with his first LP in five years comes Warp Records' longest standing minion, Nightmares on Wax (aka George Evelyn), a man that brings the fire to the melting pot. As always, Evelyn has managed to effortlessly blend the multicultural elements of every groove-based genre under the sun...
- exclaim.ca
2013-09-17
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