''Majenta'' is a studio album by American electronic musician

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, released in 2012 on

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. It met with a mixed reception, with ''

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'' writing that it "quite possibly represents Edgar's most full-blooded work yet."

Critical reception

''Magenta'' received some acclaim from music critics while other reviews were mixed. At

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, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 59 based on eight reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". ''Majenta'' received 4/5 stars from the publication ''

'', with the reviewer writing that "Jimmy Edgar has found a new home at Hotflush, but not a whole lot has changed in his purple-hued world of robot decadence. ''Majenta'' is scantily clad in the same skeletal synth funk, though it was apparently conceived in a passionate flurry of creativity rather than the belaboured nature of his previous works... it's a tighter record that struts and gyrates in a more assured fashion than the sprawling ''

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'', and quite possibly represents Edgar's most full-blooded work yet." In a positive review of ''Majenta'' for the

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, Rich Handscomb focused on the erotic elements of the album, writing that "as difficult as it is to take Edgar seriously at times, so earnest is he about his sexualised sonic seercraft that resistance is futile."

Track listing

# "Too Shy" # "This One’s For the Children" # "Sex Drive" # "Indigo Mechanix (3D)" # "Attempt to Make it Last" # "Let Yrself Be" # "Touch Yr Bodytime" # "Hrt Real Good" # "I Need Your Control" # "Heartkey" # "In Deep" # "Switch Switch"

Personnel

- primary artist

References

External links

''Majenta''
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