Brian Howe,
Pitchfork: "In early February, Biosphere's Geir Jenssen made an album
inspired by the architecture and potential instability of Japan's
nuclear power plants. A month later, a huge earthquake and tsunami
caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. It's healthy to be
skeptical about such claims to prescience, but dissembling isn't
Jenssen's style: Clearly stated intentions and ideas are a defining
feature of the Norwegian ambient-house producer's decades-long career.
Plus, N-Plants' sleek contours and foreboding atmosphere easily bear
out his theme. Having noted the eerie coincidence, we can dispense with
it and let the best Biosphere album since 1997's definitive Substrata
stand on its own."
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