Pawel "Pawel" (DIAL) - Resident Advisor Review

Resident Advisor score out a 4/5 stars for Dial's starlet PAWEL!

"Has any label been so impressively shadowy as Dial? I don't mean the label has hidden itself away; I mean light and shade are its metier, as everything from Lawrence to Pantha du Prince has demonstrated: luscious, lustrous greyscale, more matte than metallic but luminous anyway. But Paul Kominek is different. He's been recording as Pawel on and off for the label for years now, and his debut album is wide-open, bright, boldly colorful and weirdly sunny. Not just because it's on Dial, either; there's something tugging at the edges of the creamy, deceptively light tracks on this album. It's a breath of fresh air even as it fits perfectly with the mustier work it shares a catalog with."