Herbert's Scale is everything that was great about the disco underground: soulful vocals, progressive politics and smart party music.  Full text...

Sophisticated and whimsical, joyful and yet tinged with sadness, Scale is one of this year's great albums.  Full text...

Scale is a success because it proves, rather than hints, that house divided against itself can stand quite easily. As long as all of the disparate parts are built to scale, the complexity of music can be exactly this easy, and that natural, fun quality makes the politics and nauseating complexity of Herbert's process an embraceable epistemology.  Full text...

Political sloganeering and experimental dance music aren’t obvious bedfellows, but Herbert somehow manages to make the marriage succeed.  Full text...

His most accessible album to date.  Full text...

Warm and quirky. Pleasantly bizarre. Sophisticated and daft. Herbert at his best.   Full text...

For Scale, he's relaxed his own rules just a slight bit, and the result may very well be his most inviting and poppy effort yet. Long-time partner Dani Siciliano takes lead vocals on most tracks, and instrumentation dips into lush orchestral jazz, slippery house, and even glitchy ballads.  Full text...

Scale marks a return to a song-based focus that echoes Herbert’s breakthrough work, Bodily Functions, but a sound that reflects his experiences during his Big Band project.  Full text...

So we've got pop music too lightweight to do much more than fancy up the background and a conceptual underpinning, that, due to the seamless way it's blended into these songs, is near imperceptible.  Full text...

Herbert may be too damn odd to ever make a truly great pop record; this could be as close as he gets.   Full text...