Previous praise for The Range:
Potential on "Best Albums of 2016" lists from
Consequence of Sound,
Exclaim,
Stereogum, TIME
"Florida" on "Best Songs of 2016" lists from Entertainment Weekly, NPR Music, SPIN
“On this lovely, elegiac album, Mr. Hinton’s production is lush and precise, but what he’s most effective at is a sort of abstraction filter — these slow-burn songs serve as a way to feel deeply and get lost all at the same time.”
The New York Times
"James Hinton uses samples like he invented the entire concept... his music crackles with the air of discovery."
Pitchfork
"Hinton trawled YouTube for little-watched, intimate singing videos, stumbling on bedroom cover artists and struggling amateurs, and he filled Potential with their voices... Look past the memes and the fake news in your Facebook feed: there’s infinite beauty out there, just waiting to be discovered."
TIME
"Makes a shockingly strong case for the top tier of contemporary sample-indebted achievements (alongside pillars including Burial's Rival Dealer EP and Jamie xx's In Colour)"
Consequence of Sound
"A transcendent experience... His treatment of the people that he samples is considered and thoughtful; instead of coming across as exploitive, it feels like he's tapped into a previously unknown range of human emotions."
Stereogum
"As great an album as it is a story, and it proves that a sample needn't be well-known to be powerful."
PopMatters
The Range Online