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It’s a primitivist ritual in masks, with a symbolic tree and lots of Graham vocabulary.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2022

Fearn wrote beats that were deceptively primitivist, as indebted to the skronking throb-throb of ’80s American post-punk bands like Big Black as they were to hip-hop; Williamson’s heavily-accented rage-poetry fit neatly on top.

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2021

A kind of primitivist genius, an art brut of the movie screen?

From The Guardian • Aug. 20, 2017

When you combine that unusual shape with the tower’s skin of stone panels, the effect is distinctly primitivist, with hints of the way Mayan or Egyptian temples preside over wide empty plazas.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2017

But her feelings are also in accord with the old, primitivist formula whereby the less refined something is, the truer it is.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 1, 2015