#1050 Monster Rally - Return to Paradise

More of Monster Rally's slurry, blurry minimalist electronica, twisting a few languid samples and beats around eachother to make little time-diluted spaces. This works better than his previous stuff, with better hooks, more inventive angles, and more evocative kaleidoscopic tropical soundscapes. Still, this too minimal to really engage with, every song packing to go to someplace it never sets off for. More damningly, it isn't pleasant enough to really disappear in, everything a little detuned and warped, a little uncanny and wobbled. Whether that's an artifact of imperfection or a grasp at evoking some stoned state hardly matters: there aren't any songs here and it works too inconsistently to work as an album 2.5/5