Rockarolla
Radiohead may have made their own, angsty ter- ritorial pissings over the genre of existential glitch pop with Kid A,
but Raoul Sinier presents a genuine challenge to their throne. The stereotype of the electronic musician meekly hunched over a laptop is squashed by a Pythonesque giant foot, so epic are some of these tracks.
The Wire
This blend of the whimsical and the disquieting characterises the album as a whole: fairground flourishes are knitted to brooding industrial shades by crisply sculpted breakbeats and vintage keyboards trace out imperiously ascending prog patterns. Sinier is based in Paris and his music belongs to same strange corner of the French imagination as the film Delicatessen.
XLR8R
Raoul Sinier, the Bo Jackson of the multimedia world, is the epitome of a hardworking man. In addition to producing intricate, gritty sound structures that fall somewhere at the meeting point of IDM, hip-hop, and breakcore, the Paris-based artist also happens to be damn good at illustration and animation as well. WTF!
The Red Eye Portal
Captivating, complex and genre-defying; Guilty Cloaks feels like the most genuine piece electronic music I've heard in a long time.
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Inpress Magazine
The joy is that you never really know where Ra is going to take you next, at one moment drawing upon melancholic Boards of Canadaesque wisps with cute synth lines, the next fracturing the same tune up into digital chaos. Inspired and original, there is not one false step on Raoul Loves You.
Datatransmission
Raoul Sinier is one of those gifted artists who manages to bridge dance-music with experimental post-rock without being at all po-faced or inaccessible.
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BBC.co.uk
(...) and sound-masher Ra unleashes one of the most brilliantly heavy and strangely funky pieces of electronica we’ve heard in ages on the picture-disc-only Ev.Panic (Planet Mu).
AltSounds
On the whole, Cymbal Rush/Strange Teeth & Black Nails is an incredible EP and it's something I never expected to like so much.
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Cuemix-magazine
“Huge Samurai Radish” is what I expected from Raoul Sinier, but don’t get me wrong I expected that he astonish me again and again. A brilliant album - that leaves with more appetite and a roaring stomach.
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Raoul Sinier is an absolute breathtaking phenomenon. His music is made to loose words - and words aren't made to describe his all-embracing art. I think the secret behind his genius is that he thinks about every move he make and while he thinks about his moves he acts.
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PopMatters
Brain Kitchen announces the presence of Raoul Sinier in the league of Miguel Depedro (kid606) and Guillermo Scott Herren (Prefuse 73, Savath + Savalas) as leaders of the circuit bending fusion of hip-hop bravado and broken electronics.
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Sublight managed to pull over a few names from Britain itself. Raoul Sinier, a visual artist and musician hailing from Paris, is not only one of the latest examples, but one of the more promising new arrivals.
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Excaim!
Ra has no regard for traditional song structures, a technique that’s rampant in underground electronic circles, but one that he’s definitely mastered the nonchalance of.
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Trax
Un long maxi pour prouver - une nouvelle fois - combien Raoul Sinier est l’une des plus fines lames de l’electronica. L’ensemble est gavé d’imagination et le style immédiatement reconnaissable. Rarement chez ceux qui ont fait du flou musical un signe d’intelligence, on trouve la charge émotionnelle de ces fresques noircies à la chaux.
IRM
(…) l'une des plus passionnantes relectures du travail du leader de Radiohead qu'il nous ait été donné d'entendre.
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Liability
On le sait, Raoul Sinier est une vraie valeur sure de la musique électronique francophone et qui aime surprendre son public (…)
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Raoul Sinier est surement l'une des meilleures choses qui est arrivée à la musique électronique hexagonale.
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Goûte mes Disques
Raoul Sinier vient de frapper un très grand coup dans la fourmilière électronique, jusqu’à parier sur Tremens Industry comme le disque IDM/electronica de l’année. Absolument essentiel.
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PopNews
Plus de deux ans après, avec "Wxfdswxc2", un disque plus réussi encore, il complète la démonstration. Raoul aime la noirceur, la rudesse et les aspérités, il ne se contentera jamais d'une mélodie lisse (…).
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Mowno
Un peu plus loin, caché derrière un amas de caillasses, Ra l'attend, couché, l'oeil dans le viseur, prêt à lancer quelques-unes des plus belles batailles d'une guerre contre le formatage et la facilité.
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Raoul Sinier, en cassant ainsi sa routine et en suscitant la curiosité, n'est pas revenu pour faire de la figuration. Suite au prochain épisode.
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