Dave Franklin at Dancing About Architecture gave the Blue EP a full review, calling Blueprint Tokyo “perhaps at the pinnacle” of the post-genre creative wave — bands that have moved beyond the idea that analog and digital are opposing camps.

On the sound overall: “Blueprint Tokyo seems to have found the sweet spot between many points on the musical and metaphysical map — halfway between analogue and digital, the past and the future, between muscle and melody, the shimmering and sharp-edged.”

On the songwriting: “Their ability to edit down the songs until only the necessary musical strands exist is something that they excel at.”

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