“Teenages is a masterclass in the almost forgotten art of playing synthesizers for their own sake, rather than using them as tools to be linked to a sequencer. Naqvi generates interest simply by exploring a voltage-controlled modular analogue synth, revelling in each arpeggiated splutter, each buzzsaw burp, and each slightly unstable wobble, like a virtuoso violinist trying out a Stradivarius.” - The Guardian
“Exquisitely constructed…They are not landscapes to be admired at a distance, but inscapes to be explored with attentive care.”- Wire Magazine
“Preamble is a thrilling, sonorous maze of conservatory gestures that stops just short of cohering into anything continuous or definitive…But impressionism is hardly a crime, and the disappointment of Preamble is its brevity; half an hour is hardly long enough to truly get lost in the drift on offer here.” - Magnet Magazine
“…rhythms become textures become rhythms again; chords freeze and hover in mid-air. By the end, the preceding music begins to feel like a series of mere sketches, documenting Naqvi and his instrument’s growth toward this gorgeous intricacy and sweeping scale.” - Spin Magazine
“Taken individually, the six pieces on Chronology dispense small-scale hits of gorgeousness. In tandem, the tracks cohere to form a compelling suite of pieces that can subtly undermine expectations for ambient-influenced composition.”- Pitchfork
“A similar paradox animates Two Centuries, an outstanding album that the composer Qasim Naqvi dropped back in the summertime, but whose spaciousness and equanimity feels most worthy of our attention right now.”- Washington Post
Naqvi’s carefully rendered tones make a tentative entrance, stretch their limbs, explore the ruined panorama for a short while, and slink away again, leaving little trace. Caught between accident and expression, it is a sound whose ephemerality makes it all the more haunting.- Pitchfork
“….Warm, buzzy pillows cradle stuttering, percussive puffs of breath; glacial bells are bathed in the oceanic hiss of worn circuitry. …..Chronology” inhabits the cheerfully poignant space of a technological cutting edge worn soft. What once seemed exotic, alien, and cold is revealed as human, curious, and vulnerable. Call it machine learning.”- Boston Globe
“Film is so cinematic it nearly renders the accompanying visuals superfluous. Naqvi deftly crafts bleak landscapes that seem to stretch far into the horizon, as well as into the most primal cavernous spaces.”- Bandcamp Daily