The Idiots Are Winning

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The Idiots Are Winning
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Studio album by
James Holden
Released2006
GenreElectronic
Label
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Guardian4/5 stars[1]

The Idiots Are Winning is the debut album by English electronic music producer James Holden. It was released in 2006 as the fourteenth record on Holden's own record label, .

The title of the album is a quote from British comedy series Nathan Barley.[2]

Track listing[]

  1. "Lump"
  2. "Quiet Drumming Interlude"
  3. "10101"
  4. "Corduroy"
  5. "Flute"
  6. "Idiot"
  7. "Lumpette"
  8. "Intentionally Left Blank"
  9. "Idiot Clapsolo"
  10. "Quiet Drumming"

Reception[]

The album received a positive review in The Guardian which called it "the most invigoratingly coherent blast of pure electronic sound since the Boards of Canada last remembered to set their alarm clock."[1]

A reviewer for Drowned in Sound gave the album a score of 10/10, calling it "masterful" and stating that it "raises the bar for producers in all fields of electronica and opens up new doors to what the field can actually achieve."[3]

Writing for Pitchfork, Matthew Herbert named The Idiots Are Winning as one of his top five albums of 2006.[4]

A review in Stylus Magazine gave the album a rating of 'B+', calling it "gorgeously magisterial."[5]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Ben Thompson (November 12, 2006). "James Holden, The Idiots Are Winning". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  2. ^ Sande, Kiran (2006-12-12). Holden - The Idiots are Winning. Resident Advisor. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
  3. ^ Colin Roberts. "James Holden - The Idiots are Winning". Drowned in Sound.
  4. ^ "Best of 2006". Pitchfork.
  5. ^ James Cobo (1 December 2006). "James Holden-The Idiots are Winning-Review". Stylus Magazine.


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