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- Summary: The sounds of an electronic device-driven world are the influences on Ferraro's first full-length release on the Hippos in Tanks label.
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- Record Label: Hippos in Tanks
- Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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The WireDec 6, 2011Far Side Virtual is a convincing evocation of the digital dreamtime. [Nov 2011, p.58]
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Nov 28, 2011In essence, Ferraro has crafted a noiseless noise record.
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Nov 28, 2011Such dedication to an aesthetic means Far Side Virtual gets a little tedious: It's 16 songs that aren't all that catchy but aren't exactly ambient either.
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Nov 28, 2011There are certainly active emotions fuelling the themes laid out on this album, and I daresay you could identify fragments of meta-commentary. It's just that you need to take most of it on good faith.
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Nov 28, 2011Plug in and turn on, baby, surrender to its augmented charms.
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Nov 28, 2011Besides adhering to his familiar sonic longings and rather than dampening the message, Far Side Virtual succeeds in exciting the collective memory of that generation now so conjoined to its technological appendages.
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Nov 28, 2011On Far Side Virtual, he makes a glowing, glossy album out of everyday digital detritus.
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