★★★★★
Ryan Hemsworth, the shy, self-effacing Canadian who takes a Pikachu doll on tour, seems the unlikely face of a new generation of bass producers. But he's actually the perfect fit. Surfing hip hop, trap, r'n'b and indie, he pours myriad influences into 'Guilt Trips', as if creating the soundtrack to an RPG featuring Frank Ocean, Gucci Mane and a rolling cartoon landscape...
- www.mixmag.net
2013-12-03
★★★★★
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Ryan Hemsworth - Guilt TripsRyan Hemsworth - Guilt TripsRelease Date: October 22, 2013
Record Label: Last Gang
On Ryan Hemsworth's "Still Cold," a guest verse from Baths delivers some of the snarkiest lines of the year, murmuring "it's almost funny that you're still so cold/what are you Taylor Swift?/It's almost funny that you're still so cold and that I think you're worth the bullshit...
- www.absolutepunk.net
2013-11-16
★★★★★
There's something endearingly modest about Ryan Hemsworth--you feel like you know him just from reading his interviews and his Twitter account. This unassuming quality seeps into his music: the bootleg remixes with which he made his name are mostly gentle touch-ups rather than total reworks, and his original songs have been marked by a preference for warm, lived-in sounds (which has led to unfortunate tags like chill-trap)...
- www.residentadvisor.net
2013-11-13
★★★★★
On Ryan Hemsworth's "Still Cold," a guest verse from Baths delivers some of the snarkiest lines of the year, murmuring "it's almost funny that you're still so cold/what are you Taylor Swift?/It's almost funny that you're still so cold and that I think you're worth the bullshit." What follows is Baths turning the cheek to his audience, not out of forgiveness but out of spite: "...you're not...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-11-12
★★★★★
Available on: Last Gang Records LP On his way to becoming the Internet's favorite DJ and remixer, self-described One Man Boy Band Ryan Hemsworth steadily shared a string of beat-based releases. His early work bounded between left-field hip-hop, technicolor dance music, and sullen downtempo and was equally likely to find him sampling Motown, Max B, or Mitsuda...
- www.factmag.com
2013-10-25
★★★★★
This Toronto-based DJ/producer's debut album is a promising blend of R&B, hip hop and various electronic styles, with an emotive, often-melancholy sound featuring woozy synths, skittering beats, sampled vocal fragments and wistful melodies. Guest vocalists are featured on five of the album's ten tracks. 10/25/2013
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- kexp.org
2013-10-26
★★★★★
In the growing body of writing about how disastrous millennials are supposed to be, people throw around phrases like "severely shortened attention spans" as an insult, but the twentysomething producer Ryan Hemsworth is proof that this assumed failing can, in fact, be a great strength. Over his short but industrious career he's displayed an almost pathological inability to stick with any one particular style of music for more than a few minutes at a time...
- pitchfork.com
2013-10-24
★★★★★
Halifax-bred, Toronto-based DJ/producer Ryan Hemsworth has rapidly risen to fame, initially on the strength of his remixes (both authorized and bootlegged). In that forum, his wildly eclectic style is a strength, allowing him to take the approach that best suits the source material. On his first album, he applies that method to his own songs and employs a large cast of collaborators to constantly shift the mood...
- www.nowtoronto.com
2013-10-25
★★★★★
When it comes to dreamy productions that blur the lines between hip-hop, R&B, and indie pop, Ryan Hemsworth has plenty of competition in 2013, but his pedigree includes work with Main Attrakionz, Sole, and Quadron, so the Canadian DJ and producer must have something up his sleeve. Judging from all the cool, dreamy, and afternoon music on his debut album, that sleeve probably hangs off a sized-up and tastefully designed sweater as Guilt Trips is the audio equivalent, enveloping the listener in...
- www.allmusic.com
2014-01-19
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