Quoting Martin Lomas <mlomas@rogers.com>:
quoted 4 lines Just posted my annual year-end mini-reviews, about half of which might
> Just posted my annual year-end mini-reviews, about half of which might
> be IDM
>
> http://members.rogers.com/mlomas/2Reviews2002.html
From the page:
Mum - Finally we are no one (Fat Cat, 2002)
Mum have shown their wide-ranging prowess on previous releases in a mostly
techno vein, albeit dynamic and melody-bound. Here, they effortlessly ease into
another direction, that of sweet, emotional and dreamy electronic pop... [etc.]
Mum - The Szabotnik 15 Mission (Klein, 2002)
A prolific year for Mum. And again, a different direction here; left field
and funky. Brilliantly executed grooves... [etc.]
There are two groups called "Mum", right? One with the little accent over
the "u", the other without the accent? These two reviews are not the same Mum,
right?
On another note, I was selling a ton of my music at Other Music the other day,
and decided to use some of the cash they paid me to pick up the new Sigur Ros
album. What a complete waste! I can't imagine anything more boring than "()"
(or was it "(("? Or maybe "[|")
Seriously, their previous album has it's beautiful moments, but this one is
just, like, "tinkle tinkle tinkle, drone drone drone, moan moan moan tinkle,"
etc. etc. AAAAUUUGH!!! I don't know about everybody else, but they just took
everything I liked about the first album and got rid of it, leaving only the
boring bits, which only served to make me realize that I haven't listened to
their first ablum in over a year because it's frankly not *that* amazing, so
I'm selling them both.
Sorry, I just had to vent there.
2002 saw a few good things here and there, but overall it was full of
disappointments and "blah" moments. Both musically and politically... Looking
back at everyone's "best of 2002, the horror" responses, I saw more mentions of
things I had forgotten in my own list, quite good stuff, like Proswell &
Machine Drum & ML & Susumu Yokota, but really 2002 just disappointed overall.
I guess it just makes me appreciate the good stuff all the more...
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