(Kranky)
!! CAUTION !!
Being impressed with Nicolas Jaar and somewhat enjoying James Blake, I thought I'd maybe dip in for another hip-approved ambient electronic album. This is one from a lifer who uses lots of tape delay and creates a kind of shapeless wall of sound different (very different) from the one Phil Spector used on those old b-sides. It's... it's so...
I don't know, I think I like avant garde music, right? I think I even like droning. But this is fifty-two minutes of droning with little variance, or rather, with variance I'm not capable of hearing. I don't want to tell other people how to do their job but damn, dude, couldn't it have been just a little shorter? Things do get a little more interesting toward the end with some piano textures, but approaching this from my philistine pop perspective I must say this doesn't move me at all. If you're seriously into ambient, though, don't steer clear; I'm sure it's better than what my ears allow me to realize.
(I think the last track has a sound effect from "Yars' Revenge" for Atari 2600 which honestly makes me like this a little more...)
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