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- Summary: This is the Japanese artist's fourth album of experimental pop.
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- Record Label: Polyvinyl
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Pop, International
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Positive: 9 out of 13
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Mixed: 4 out of 13
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Negative: 0 out of 13
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Mar 2, 2011Port Entropy, Shugo's fifth LP (depending on how you reckon Fragment, his 2003 CD-R self-release), decisively occupies the realm of the waking: the nimble, the abstract, and the exciting.
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Mar 2, 2011As creative as it is cheerful, Port Entropy just might be the most inviting welcome into Tokumaru's world yet.
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Mar 8, 2011It's a wonderful record of a musician and songwriter in his prime, but one that requires a willingness to go on a ride, with an open mind and a willingness to have some fun.
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Mar 2, 2011You won't catch every note, every shift--he's never that transparent. But there's a welcoming feel to this record that makes it resonate longer than any jarring shift could.
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Mar 28, 2011Invoking the most sunny-day innocence of '60s pop with effortless amounts of homeland lyrics and layers, the overwhelming sweetness has the potential to wear thin for the duration of a whole album.
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Mar 2, 2011Port Entropy is charming and pretty and brilliantly assembled, but utterly two-dimensional, and listening to it even one time completely through yields strikingly diminished returns.
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Mar 2, 2011While Port Entropy contains some of Tokumaru's most accomplished compositions yet, on the whole, it's a bit too monochrome for its own good.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Sep 16, 2011
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