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- Summary: The second part of Arp's ZEBRA trilogy of albums features classic drum machines, vintage synthesizers, live hand percussion, and fretless bass.
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- Record Label: Mexican Summer
- Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock
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MojoJul 25, 2022Its mercurial art-pop is dotted with contrary pulses and unexpected detours. [Sep 2022, p.96]
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Jul 25, 2022The spirit of the concept is dazzlingly portrayed at times, but the LP also conveys the emptiness of these things, the true idea of a "new pleasure"—everything we want, though not always enough of what we need. But it's great while it lasts.
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Jul 25, 2022He is fully equipped to construct bold new sonic edifices, but on New Pleasures, Georgopoulos too often settles for the skyscrapers we already know; shiny, but ordinary.
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UncutJul 25, 2022Where earlier material flowed freely, here his fiddly funk and plastic grooves contrive a kind of new-age electro that at times is suave and smooth but rarely settles into anything satisfying; as much as they exude a sense of wellness. [Aug 2022, p.23]