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- Summary: This is the second full-length collaboration between Dustin Wong and Takako Minekawa.
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- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Electronic, Shibuya-Kei
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Sep 30, 2014Savage Imagination, the duo’s second full-length album, arrives little over a year after Toropical Circle and represents a remarkable upgrade to their shared sound, blasting their day-glo explorations through a mosaic approach to sound source layering and live multitasking
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Sep 30, 2014The “Dimension Dive” tracks sometimes sound like they belong on a different record altogether, although taken in the grab-bag context of Savage Imagination it just about works. It’s just that elsewhere there’s a more coherent flow from one change to the next.
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Sep 30, 2014There's endless potential in this collaboration, if only they'd take a more confident leap into the unknown.
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Sep 30, 2014Although heavy in pretty atmosphere, Savage Imagination often lacks immediacy; this problem might be resolvable through live improvisation.
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Sep 30, 2014Their many-layered universes, however, spiral without building to a truly dramatic moment, either within each part or between the parts of the whole.