The K & D Sessions - Reviews

Reviews

The K&D Sessions has received acclaim on its release. Spin gave the album an eight out of ten rating, praising the album as being more consistent than their DJ Kicks album, but that the album has "less scope and vibrancy". Spin later placed the album at number 19 on their list of top 20 albums of 1999. Spike Magazine gave the album a positive review stating that the album is "one of those albums that comes out of the blue, providing a whole bunch of surprises to make even the most jaded get excited about music again." Music database Allmusic gave the album five stars out of five, opining that "the impossibly deep beats on almost every track simply couldn't have been recorded by any other act" and referred to the music as "the most blissfully blunted music the world has ever heard"

The NME gave the album a mixed review feeling that the album was overlong, noting "Does the world really need to own both their reappraisals of Bomb The Bass' 'Bug Powder Dust', even if the first one is a corker?" Pitchfork Media also noted the length of the album referring to the second disc as "thoroughly boring", but praising the album stating "a handful of the tracks on this sprawling 2xCD set demonstrate a mastery of rhythm unseen in DJ'd music since DJ Shadow bestowed upon us the gift of Endtroducing...... Out of the depths of their remix material's musical void, Kruder and Dorfmeister assemble organic downtempo triumphs which may alone be sufficient to perpetuate the otherwise trite brand of music currently labeled "trip-hop.""