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plug-in replicating a piano. While Silver spent hours on a piano experimenting to find which melodies would work for each track, he didn't want them to sound too perfect. An example would be when he was making "Exercise #4 (Spirit)," an improvisational track where he played on a "synth bed" not
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magazine, while calling the EP "nice," felt that it "often fades so completely into the background, or oneâs consciousness," which "could mean itâs being marketed in the wrong genre." He called the EP "too much like the short drizzle" with very few "brief rainbows" or surprises.
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a "deeply affecting record, one that draws you close and comforts." They categorized it as a modern classical record having "the sensitivity" of the works of
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contains only around three to five instruments and involves "just a lot of different melodies working off each other, bouncing off each other," Silver explained. The simplicity gives each song multi-dynamic emotional aspects. Patel compared the EP's
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piano notes, and vocals. He felt when he was making the track, it was being "a bit weighed down by âsongness,â" thus he made a track featuring vocals that sung lyrics. Shaw compared Silverâs vocal performance on the cover to
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records were made. As Silver explained, "since I was going for something stripped down I was kind of working with melodic patterns, building melodies on melodies in ways that werenât necessarily grandiose." Each track on
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a "fascinating repeat listen" because its tracks "feel like theyâve become sentient, curious to know where they are and what theyâre doing here. Remixes donât do that; witch house hasnât quite, either."
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that fade in and combine to a "cloud" around it, wrote Shaw. Worthington analyzes that "Exercise #6 (December)" and "Exercise #7 (Loss)" depart from the "distinctly urban" element of the other tracks on
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wrote, "although it lacks the beat-oriented, build-and-release formula of his best work, Exercises is elegant, textured, and cerebral enough to be an excellent after-hours soundtrack." Adam
Blyweiss of
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magazine critic analyzed that while fans of CFCF's previous records may be turned off by the EP's style, it showcases Silver's "true" and "exciting" composition abilities.
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magazine premiered "Exercise #5 (September)," and on May 11, Silver performed the cover as part of a performance sessions series by Yours Truly. On April 12, 2012,
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criticized the EP for focusing too much on sounding nice rather than having many moments that excite the listener. Ray
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were "obvious" but praised the record for how it used these influences to "condense them into short sharp and melodic pieces." Arwa Haider wrote in her review for
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flick scored by fuzzy synths and gorgeous piano recitals," while
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chord gestures." A rework of "Exercise #4 (Spirit)" was included on CFCF's collaboration album with Jean-Michel Blais titled
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2052:"CFCFâs Synth-and-Piano Miniatures: Chillwave After the Thaw"
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2536:"CFCF â Exercises (full EP stream)"
2201:"Album Review: CFCF â Exercises EP"
1839:Pollard, Vincent (April 24, 2012).
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2376:"CFCF â Exercises [EP]"
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2354:"Dust Volume 3, Number 4"
2228:. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
2220:"Beat Construction: CFCF"
2064:. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
2033:. Retrieved July 2, 2017.
2025:Cemm, Ro (July 4, 2012).
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1841:"CFCF Building Exercises"
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2829:Radiance and Submission
2706:"Exercises â PAPER BAG"
1815:"CFCF â âExercises EPâ"
1603:"Exercise 6 (December)"
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1477:a mixed review for
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1970:"The River â CFCF"
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