[Sorry for the jumbled multi-reply, but I lost the original messages]
Treadmill? I can understand making a judgement on an artist's
progression after the third album or so, but this is just Alan's second
album. Granted, it has been four years since the first full-length,
and maybe you've heard outtakes in the interim. Otherwise, while I'll
reiterate that "Puttering" will certainly make "Bundle Of Joy" fans
happy, "Bundle of Joy 2" this album is not. While not a radical
departure, the new album does have differences... and I don't sense
any lack of new ideas.
But hey, diff'rent strokes/diff'rent folks/rule the world/yes it does
And I hope I didn't accidentally tout the new Loops record as some sort
of IDM Landmark. Personally, it's my favorite album of the year so far,
and nothing more. I only posted it here because I knew there were fans on
this list, and also some of Land Of The Loops' stuff has a few though not
many qualities shared by what's get discussed here often....
If you're unequivocally against "cute", you probably won't like this
record... then again, it may be so cute that even the most bad-ass Eeyore
on this list couldn't resist... so I dunno.
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Brian MacDonald <brianm@kuci.org>
KUCI 88.9 fM in Irvine, CA -- Orange County
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