“... landing somewhere between DJ Sprinkles’s NYC-via-Tokyo depths and a ruggeder Shinichi Atobe in its fine balance of sparingly plush keys and reserved grooves that make a virtue of reduction. When we say deep house, we’re talking a spectrum of styles from dubby to broken, jazzy and beatdown, as Macchiatto cycles from effortless steppers dub house in ‘Switching Code’ thru deft, airborne jazz breaks and silvery lines of thought in ‘fantasy Culture’, to class cuts of Detroit-like beatdown on ‘Millet’ and ‘The Backpack’, while ‘Minstrel’ wanders off on its own tip into a strange mix of The Dirtbombs-esque drums and groggy keys like an odd Omar-S joint. Real good shit.”
- Boomkat (Foam)
”…'April Tea' sounds like a live band playing Other People Place riffs, and 'Spooky Black' is the funkiest prog jam we've come across in ages. But it's tracks like the stirring 'Damn Hard' and 'Universal Translator' that have us by the throat. Like Omar-S's best material, they're deceptively simple, using airy, humanistic rhythms to underpin harmonic shifts that slap the heart and brain all at once.”
