- “A completely satisfying project on its own, but it’s also so good that it practically cries out for a film to be made to fit its cues.”
allmusic.com - “Jaw dropping..one of the heaviest and most intensely atmospheric records of the year, but fun with it…The album is a lovingly crafted ode to Judge Dredd, urban alienation, the cinematic sci-fi masterpieces of the late 70s and early 80s, electronic music of both the past and present, and it all hits with the weight of a cadmium steak tenderizer. What more could you want?”
The Quietus - “Reader you have to get this album”
The Line of Best Fit - “If they make ten more albums this good I will buy them all. The brooding ‘Miami Gunman’ and ‘The Men Who Never Learned’ are short masterpieces.. fearless, stark and unresolved…It’s apparent that Barrow and Salisbury are the modern day kings of the synthesizer. All hail”
Beardrock.com - “its various cues accompany a mind’s-eye tour of the megalopolis magnificently well…Drokk is quite the engrossing, and sporadically discomforting, listen. Dredd would certainly approve”
BBC music - “Drokk is without a doubt the soundtrack to the John Carpenter or Ridley Scott Judge Dredd movie that existed only in fanboy fantasy…give Drokk a listen. It’s the law.”
Den of Geek - “It’s got everything you expect (and what I, personally want ) from a score of a fictional future – synths, and not much else; drones, fuzz, pulses and endless bleak repetitious themes.”
Antigohst Moonray records - “While Barrow and Salisbury have painted a forbidding picture of the overall future, their own futures as producers with an ever-expanding, consistent repertoire looks assured.”
Fact Magazine - “The music is ice-cold, brutal and focused, a masterpiece of synthesiser worship. Barrow’s faultless taste and broad talent bestows Drokk with the unsettling, hypnagogic sheen of Portishead, and the driving motorik pulse of Beak>, while Salisbury’s ear for arrangement and filmic vision creates an uneasy but rapturous listen.”
Lurker’s Path - “We heartily recommend that you wrap your lugs around ‘Drokk’, the darkly brilliant new rekkid by Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury.”
Time out music - “As you’d expect from these fellas, the pacing and space are wonderfully judged and the tones and melodies are tasteful and detailed…Whether or not you’re a Dredd fan this is a pretty essential listen.”
Norman Records - “Dark, rich and compelling”
Music OHM - “The tempo and atmosphere created by Barrow and Salisbury match the quality of all the great science fiction movies of the 70s and 80s and, at times, surpasses many of them… you are guaranteed an adrenaline-filled joy ride.”
mxdwn.com - “This is a rich, complex and conflicted soundtrack for the best comicbook movie never made.”
Prefix Magazine - “The duo create a soundscape of interlocking melodies and rhythms which are completely absorbing and hypnotic. The sounds on this album are the most intense, huge, rounded tones you will hear on any record this year… DROKK does an incredible job of capturing the feel of Dredd’s.. megalopolis.”
The Skinny - “Expertly sidestepping the hackneyed orchestral angle projects of this kind often employ, most of the album’s 19 tracks were created exclusively on the classic 1975 keyboard, the Oberheim 2 Voice Synthesizer…DROKK masterfully employs the listener’s imagination to render the need for visuals practically obsolete.”
The AU - “Deeply influenced by the 80s Vangelis and John Carpenter soundtracks, Drokk is a dark and atmospheric instrumental work…a completely immersive experience”
The Pulse - “The album flows between sounding violent and claustrophobic and droning and expansive. Not just for fans of the 2000AD comics and film soundtracks, this is a great electronic album in itself.”
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