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It feels like my brain has swollen to the point of actually causing my skull to buckle slightly. Still, there's no excuse for not doing reviews for Stylus, even if I did skip class and all other avoidable activities today.
Ventolin', only with, y'know, less subtlety. Oh, this is not the time to hear this. Are they slowly drilling a hole in my forehead?
The weirdly twinkling part in the background is kind of like Boards Of Canada, but the track never gets boring. This I could put up with for a while.
Aww, that's a nice keyboard part. You know, one of those ones that sounds all wistful and melancholy, restrained and slightly bell-like. Too bad several angry pixies are punching buttons on drum machines over top of it.
Oh man, he did that thing where the drums slow down like they've just taken heroin. The whole track is a bit unfocused, but it's still pretty cool. Wait, now there are voices coming in. Ah, that's where the title comes from.
Albert Park Music', which is pretty ambient (and also 'pretty, ambient', hur hur), gets a rolling beat matched up against a brittle piano figure to make beautiful, head-nodding music with. It's tricky evaluating this sort of music, as two different artists can do things that on the surface are very similar, and one will work and one won't. It's kind of hard, for me at least, to quantify; one guy had better loops? One of them just got lucky? It's hard to tell, but it's not hard to see when something works or not.
The man has a dab hand with a middle eight, as well; many of the tracks here have a completely unrelated idea pop and take over half way through, only to have the main theme come back and then the two interweave. It's a pretty common trick in electronic music, but too many artists don't pull it off; the middle just sort of sits there like a dead fish.
Avon Ranger' is a perfectly good track. But the discs been going on for a while, and I'd like to lay down. Could you turn down the drums, man? That's a really nice keyboard sound you've got going there, and it'd be pretty soothing if you didn't have the breakbeats. I mean, they're cool and all, and you do them well, but do you have to have the harsh percussion on every track? Albert Park Music' is one of the best tracks here, and it'd be nice to see other tracks in the same vein. And not just because of my massive headache.
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