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It's Broder's careful balancing act between the traditional and the abnormal that makes his music so interesting.
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MojoChallenging and sometimes extraordinarily beautiful. [Mar 2002, p.108]
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The WireThis isn't really the future of HipHop, but as a fleeting reverie on its conflicted present, it makes for a fantastic detour. [#217, p.55]
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UncutAt its most ascetic, Fog sees Broder kicking down the same fence post of convention as Tortoise, the Beta Band and latter-day Radiohead. [Mar 2002, p.111]
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Broder gently provokes your senses with curious combinations of divergent instruments, creating a collection of progressive musical oddities that is entertaining as well as musically fascinating.
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The restless Broder can’t see the problem with shredding flavours as disparate as folk, rock, post-rock, the avant-garde, hip hop, electronica into a powerful, sometimes jarring, sometimes bewitching pulp, and neither should any music fan. Listen and free your mind from convention.
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MagnetIt isn't always pleasant, but it's always surprisingly pretty. [#54, p.88]
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Surprises are around every turn.
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MixerThe tracks are often tuneful, but they're too downtempo for anything but the chill room. [May 2002, p.74]
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Like Beck before he developed the Prince fixation, Fog's anti-puritanism makes this a constantly startling, wholly addictive joy.
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Alternative PressThis disc contains some intriguing moments. [Apr 2002, p.74]