★★★★★
Tom Jenkinson's work as Squarepusher lacks any real center, instead firing off in multiple directions to dizzying effect. His best tracks are vibrant in their nutty, wild-eyed ways, such as Go Plastic's ultra-precise "My Red Hot Car", or when they sound like a refined version of his rubbery, bass-driven puzzles (Just a Souvenir's "The Coathanger")...
- pitchfork.com
2014-04-09
★★★★★
Tom Jenkinson has never been consistent at anything, really. Everything he's managed to put out under the Squarepusher moniker has been a spastic mix of sometimes good, sometimes great, and sometimes extremely annoying. Not annoying in the dicking around, tongue-in-cheek ironic way that Richard D. James is with Aphex Twin, but annoying because he doesn't really have any concept of restraint...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-04-09
★★★★★
Tom Jenkinson has never been consistent at anything, really. Everything he's managed to put out under the Squarepusher moniker has been a spastic mix of sometimes good, sometimes great, and sometimes extremely annoying. Not annoying in the dicking around, tongue-in-cheek ironic way that Richard D. James is with Aphex Twin, but annoying because he doesn't really have any concept of restraint...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-04-13
★★★★★
Squarepusher, aka Tom Jenkinson, is of course known mainly for his brain melting jazz-influenced drum n bass (or possibly drum n bass-influenced jazz), but he is also known as something of a bass guitar virtuoso. This live album, recorded at the Cité de la Musique in Paris in September 2007, collects some of his work in that field on record for the first time - as the album's title would suggest...
- www.thecmuwebsite.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
"Arpeggios often remind me of bacteria," Tom Jenkinson, aka Squarepusher, wrote online about the fourth track off of his newest album, Ufabulum...
- www.noripcord.com
2012-07-05
★★★★★
Squarepusher, nee Tom Jenkinson, is one of electronic music's true mad scientists. While not necessarily as "out-there" as Aphex Twin or as on-the-nose bombastic as Skrillex, Squarepusher's output has always been intense in its own way, combining jazz and electronic in unique, encompassing ways. Ufabulum finds him riding the EDM wave a little harder than on previous albums...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-06-18
★★★★★
In the eight years since Ultravisitor (his last universally praised release) Squarepusher went off on wandering tangents. While this matched his refusal to be penned in, unfortunately the results weren't great, were missing finesse (Hello Everything), jarring 'unplugged' jam sessions (Just a Souvenir), or lacked heart (Numbers Lucent). Solo Electric Bass 1 proved he still had 'it', but was essentially an academic textbook of a record...
- thequietus.com
2012-06-04
★★★★★
This review originally ran in AP 287. Squarepusher, aka Tom Jenkinson, has been making twitching, grand mal-inducing electronic music for 16 years and helped launch a few subgenres (cf. drill & bass, breakcore). But after years of embracing his fierce punk ethos, even Squarepusher diehards think much of his recent output is better in theory than it is coming through the speakers...
- www.altpress.com
2012-05-28
★★★★★
When artists and producers began to draw on the sonic palette of video games sometime in the past decade, it largely felt like an exercise in nostalgia; a generation reared on Nintendo was rediscovering and repurposing the sounds that shaped their childhood imaginations via 8-bit remixes and ultra-niche genres like nerdcore and chiptune...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2012-05-24
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