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Praise for 'The Mountain’
“…the spellbinding opener of the second album, “The Mountain,” by New Zealand composer/producer Richard Walley aka The Sixteenth. The brooding phrases and soundscapes of the strings meet dubby, metallic drums, and then the mood transforms into metaphysical modern classical jazz and spacey idm/glitch beats…”
Praise for ‘You Could Be Happy’
“…the album serves up a stunning collision of traditional musical disciplines with forward thinking structures and sound design, perfectly distilling The Sixteenth’s wild creativity and setting up the incredible ride the album offers.…”
Sarah Conway, PLASTICMAG
Praise for ‘Breaking It’
“…“Breaking It” takes us into a musical universe where the classic and the futuristic are masterfully intertwined. The song evokes cinematic, environmental and neoclassicist atmospheres, with retrofuturistic touches that transport us to an imaginary future…”
Oliver Zurita, EXPANSIÓN RADIAL
Praise for ‘The 16th EP’…
“…the EP feels like a collection of movie soundtracks… The Sixteenth’s sound feels like a mesh of organic and digital, a mix of old world and new. Like they’ve captured the heart and soul of a live funk performance within the confines of a constructed reality to create a soundscape that captures humanity’s past and future simultaneously. Familiar, yet unique.”