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- Summary: Kyoto, Japan's Nobukazu Takemura plays all of the instruments (and computers) on his latest release of playful, poppy electronica, which features vocals from a speech synthesizer.
- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Genre(s): Indie, Electronic
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The album is always fantastical and innocent, a meeting of magic and technology.
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UncutProvides a gentle but subtle introduction to the sometimes onerous world of avant-techno. [Apr 2003, p.122]
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The WireAn engaging, unpredictable album of Tortoise-like vibraphones, guitars, minimalist repetitions, wry syncopations, occasional duff notes and subtly daubed electronics. [#228, p.69]
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UrbTakemura's most embraceable album to date. [Jan 2003, p.77]
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MojoSmoother than last year's Sign, this capricious set also contains some finely crafted instrumental sections. [Mar 2003, p.114]
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The musical arrangements are just right, consisting of his usual assortment of electronic instruments and percussion that sound like broken toys. Hearing these tools applied in the service of well-written pop songs would be divine, but the melodies, as performed by the speech synthesizer, just aren't moving.
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If you prefer the combination of styles in his other Thrill Jockey work, or the more ambient and experimental character of A Child’s View, this may not be your bag. There is a specific focus on 10th, a consistent if ultimately unspectacular attempt to see through a child’s eyes.
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