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Praise for Wonders Never Cease:
"By the first note that you can feel your hands clasping the back of your chair
and your pulse rising. (Murray's) pieces take their time, yet have a certain kind of urgency and of poignancy... It all sounds highly immediate and culled from the moment." - Tokafi
" 'Wonders Never Cease' is Murray's finest album to date and hopefully puts him on the map of great experimental composers." - Vital Weekly
"This five-part suite is (Murray's) strongest statement yet. Its opener "Hymn One" is a beautifully rendered drone, like the hurdy-gurdy fantasies of Oren Ambarchi & Johann Berthling rendered by Eliane Radigue. Subtly shifting tonal centers move cautiously beneath the thick shag, twisting and pitch-bending before releasing some truly head-cleaning scrapes and excoriations. A superb and oddly emotional record." - Dusted
"A really mind-boggling collection of noise/drone/waves/ear-massages/ear-rapes from sound-god Brendan Murray. I call him that strictly on the basis of Wonders Never Cease, cause it's really a pretty much perfect slab of audio manipulation - at least if, like me, you like hard-edged noise but are also a sucker for droning ambience, electronic drift, waves of organ-like waft, and anything else that touches the same kind of lobe-buttons as the power harmonics of Rhys Chatham or Tony Conrad, the hypnotic soothe of the Kranky roster, the melodic noise of Fennesz or Tim Hecker, all wrapped in a noise edge that keeps it from floating into the clouds or fading off into the horizon... it's blown me away each of the 15 or so times I've listened to it in the past 2 days." - Noiseweek
"Fucking awesome!" - Aquarius
"I put Brendan up there amidst the grand pantheon of gradient-shift composers due to his meticulous nature and sharp, procedural sense. to call any one of these 5 pieces “static” would be missing a large part what makes this music so extraordinary; the small, almost impreceivable details lurking under the formal overlay - the bubbling upper-harmonic buildup at each piece’s crescendo - the accumulative nature of the individual sounds as they gain linear-momentum throughout. Anyone with even a passing interest in the more horizontal planes of contemporary electronic composition will be bowled over by the sheer force of sound by record’s end. I give this one, to you, my highest recommendation." - Mimaroglu Music Sales
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