Ultravisitor

Ultravisitor is the seventh album by Drum N Bass musician Squarepusher. Although Drum N Bass is not the correct label as this album moves in every electronic direction contains jazz and even a "classical" guitar interlude. The question is if it is much or too much. I would have chosen an other album by this artist as this is an unbelievable mess to most of the listeners and even I think some more coherent choices would have created a more consistent and better album.

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Ultravisitor, Iambic 9 poetry, Steinbolt, District line II, Circlewave

A dense work, especially as the sole Squarepusher pick here. Sitting down and digesting it will reward you with Jenkinson’s creativity on full display, however obtuse it might get. Not my go-to Squarepusher release, but it might well be the most Squarepusher release

It was alright, not really my thing.

Cool at times

Usually one for off-the-wall electronica like this, but even I couldn’t hang with how abstruse and disjointed this LP seems. Loved the tracks that felt more like live jams, especially those with the absolutely insane improv bass lines. The rest, however, feel sterile and chaotic in a way that doesn’t really feel satisfying, more noise for noise sake rather than an artistic statement. Tough call but it just doesn’t reach 3 level for me, though I do feel incentivized to check the rest of Squarepusher’s discography.

This kind of thing really does nothing for me. I thin I get where it's coming from - taking those fringe tendencies of jazz and electronic music to their utter extremities - but I really don't enjoy listening to the product. This didn't all irritate the aboslure hell out of me, but enough did - frenetic virtual robot percussion and synth knob-twiddling blips and squawks.

I’m not familiar with Squarepusher, but man, this album cover is giving me Gen X John Prine vibes. However, I see that this is an electronica album, so perhaps the John Prine vibes are just a happy accident. I’m not sure what to expect from this album, but I’m always down for some electronic musc. This album wasn’t really my speed. There were some moments on this album that I enjoyed, but most of this was a slog for me to get through. I liked the jazz-like structure that a lot of these songs had, but the overall melodies and instrumentation choices just weren’t to my personal liking. If most of the album had been like “Iambic 9 Poetry,” that would be a different story, but unfortunately for me, that song was a bit of an outlier on this album. While this wasn’t my cup of tea, it was certainly interesting, and I appreciated being pushed out of my normal comfort zone.

Boring and repetitive, and more like a collection of samples than a coherent collection of songs. Borders on hypnotic at points, but tends to puncture those moments in a stupid or annoying way. Not offensively bad, but a bit pointless, and not really an album in the classic sense

The more 'jazzy' songs, those I liked. But the parts where the noise-sections overruled, I did not. In such a way it took down my overall opinion of the album

Drum and bass, musique concrète, nu jazz, IDM. Empezó bien pero me ha terminado aburriendo. Un 2.

This is 80 minutes of a cat laying on a keyboard set to the worst sfx pad

This is not the vibe for today. Holy Moses Steinbolt is grating. This is what it sounds like when a bunch of modems are let loose in a jazz library and they just go to town on each other. An Arched Pathway is so abrasive in sections.