Jazz UK
"Excellent, edgy work...adds whole new dimensions in terms of concern with texture and colour"
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The Jazz Mann
"demanding but ultimately invigorating music"
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The Music Critic
"Empirical...improvisational...inspirational"
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The Independent
“a mixture of the tranquil, the riotous and the other-worldly…casts all the right spells”
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London Jazz
"Another elegant, polished but sparky album from one of UK jazz's most sophisticated bands"
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Metro
"consistently brilliant...sent them straight to the top of most jazz fans' best new band list"
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The Daily Telegraph
"the best opening I've heard in years...terrific"
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BBC Music Magazine
"The recorded sound is tight and detailed...sparkliest of atmospheres glide along like Teflon-coated snakes"
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The Guardian
“fascinating and fearless…their most eclectic venture to date”
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Financial Times
'Empirical's mix of structure and freedom is nourished by the atmospheric modernism'
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Jazz Journal
"music deserving of the highest praise...this is my record of the year."
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Jazzwise
"their most adventurous statement to date"
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All About Jazz
"Elements Of Truth rises confidently, if not wholly successfully...Empirical's music makes for a cracking disc."
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allgigs.co.uk
"The playing is first rate"
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BBC.co.uk
"Empirical are crashing irresistibly through the decades. Next stop, 21st century."
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Record Collector
"the same high degree of musicality and invention as they continue to probe the frontiers of jazz"
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MOJO
"Fiercely imaginative...challenging and stimulating as anything on the international scene... a vividly involving, dramatic listen"
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UNCUT Magazine
"Difficult Jazz that is pretty and positively terrifying"
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