An album of slightly glitchy, vaguely housey electronica, everything
running elliptical with repetition that doesn't fit into clean, hard
4/4's. The playful tracks, say Straight & Arrow and For Karme,
are the most successful; the rest drag a bit slowly, ring a bit murky,
seemingly going for Four Tet flickery nostalgia or Endtroducing
emotional throb, but just not getting there.
And that
not getting there is the problem. This album's lagged in my review queue
for a while now, defying my ability to say anything about it. You
listen and it doesn't click onto anything, drifting in one ear and out
the other without leaving much of a mark, failing to fail or excel,
making little emotional or intellectual impression. Maybe there's an
artfulness to its loping subtlty, but I can't say it inspires me to kick
out anything higher than 3/5
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