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“Minneapolis’ avant-garde quartet Artifact Shore offers up a solid, self-titled instrumental EP on Interference Shift that opens with seven minutes of pitter-patter thumps and laser synths akin to early Autechre. Elsewhere, it gets no happier but the group at least starts to use guitars, and should be recommended for its new-wave ethos alone. Those Minnesota winters can be tough.”

- Martin De Leon