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  • Summary: The latest album for the Japanese quartet is the band's first release since 2006's "Taiga."
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 10
  2. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. OOIOO transforms what could be mush into wonderful, brilliant songs that fold and mutate the ideas they’re based on into moving and coherent narratives.
  2. Bracing brilliance channelling the spirit of Yoko Ono, Le Tigre, Aphex Twin and Alice Coltrane.
  3. By repurposing this music with a child’s lack of regard for history, they make it fresh.
  4. The album’s 13 songs are succinct but eventful: clever structures with a world of references, a short attention span and a vandalistic pleasure in stray noise.
  5. Linguistic detective work aside, engage with natural scenery through scattered sound, this album does.
  6. Armonico Hewa proves that OOIOO are far from running out of ideas.
  7. Unfortunately, not all of the experimentation works.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. Feb 7, 2016
    9
    An amazingly eclectic album which continually surprises and delights, in an anarchic and fun kinda way. It's music that tickles the brain, andAn amazingly eclectic album which continually surprises and delights, in an anarchic and fun kinda way. It's music that tickles the brain, and that's a good thing in my book. Expand
  2. Nov 9, 2011
    6
    The fearless girls of OOIOO led by Yoshimi P-We continue their path on Armonico Hewa, the successor to Taiga. Sadly, the bandâ