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- Summary: This is album number 19 for Scotland's resident oddball Nick Currie.
- Record Label: Darla / Analog Baroque
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 8
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Mixed: 4 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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MagnetLike Oskar, Otto luxuriates in tiny, clicking blip-beats with a sense of sythn orchestration. [#68, p.102]
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It shakes the foundations of our music-consuming habits and plays with our genre expectations; it fucks with our minds a bit, just for kicks, and, more importantly, liberates us from the pernicious tyranny of monotony.
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Otto Spooky is an excellent album, yet sometimes too long for my attention span.
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Otto Spooky is designed not so much to be enjoyed as to be a spectacle.
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It's kind of a whopper to digest all at once, but if you've heard Momus before and liked him, you're not going to go wrong here.
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In the final analysis, these must be considered folk songs, though I honestly can't say they wouldn't be better or couldn't be sung and arranged in a more accessible, more openly musical forum.
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Q MagazineNot for everyone. [Jun 2005, p.120]