Friday, January 4, 2013

#691 Caetano e Gil - Tropicalia 2

Here's a place where everything rolls, everything surges, tidal and sensual and inexorable. The beats and melodies draw from far-flung sources, but they all go around here, pushing and pulling, no sharp edges, no big drops, everything in and out like waves that never break but just become part of the shore.

These Tropicalia innovators have been at it for 25 years, and here they've still got it. Both sound effortlessly tuneful as they trip across styles, weaving and interleaving for a listening experience that, while failing to flare and bristle and burn like Tropicalia's heyday, sure does go down smooth, a fine liquor mellowed with time 4/5

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