- Summary: The Battles band member releases his latest solo album on the Warp label.
- Record Label: Warp
- Genre(s): Rock, Experimental
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 15
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Mixed: 5 out of 15
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Negative: 0 out of 15
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The combination of synth, loop techniques and no-joke instrumentalists playing wild and unconventional rhythms is totally over-the-top, but that’s exactly what makes this album so dazzling.
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On Central Market, Mr. Braxton’s first full album under his own name in seven years, he has moved forward with exponentially more complicated music. It’s exponentially more entertaining, too.
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Instead of rhythmic exploration Braxton is working with a variety of harmonic and melodic developments and in doing so has made a refreshing and similar counterpoint to 'Mirrored'. Central Market may not be as calculated, but it is more fun and in general more easy to digest.
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The strongest tracks here make a case for Braxton’s compositional skills; the rest feel like recycled tales from his nights out with Stanier and Williams, an unfortunate byproduct of placing them within this context.
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It's Central Market, his second full solo release, that sees him coming of age in a manner that befits the familial myth.
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Which isn’t to say that the rest of the album isn’t impressive at certain points, though the law of diminishing returns weighs heavily here.
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His third solo album is promoted as "new classical," but "J. City" sounds more like a grievous stab at alt-rock.
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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Aug 30, 2010
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