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Gui Boratto - Chromophobia
It seems that the more said about it would conflict with how relentlessly clean, sure, and sharp this album is. like the review for the forever busy apparat was wordy, the cold tension of this rather good techno album is going to stay subdued.but i'm trying to pack in the content, see, because this album has a lot packaged inside it's BEAUTIFUL exterior. i dont think anything's ever looked that good in plastic. "terminal" is a slick sleight of hand with its dry demeanor but quick cuts, "the blessing" is a messy, but smooth track, "acrostico" begins in a blurry haze of a satisfied comedown, but gets stabbed by similarly good-natured but suddenly dry synth. there's a pattern: and it lies mostly in making contrasts work to make layered and emotionally ambiguous compositions. it mostly works, sometimes it doesn't, like on the flatly boring 'shebangs' and then there's 'beautiful life'. the closer of sets, the end of a perfect day, the anthem to take us home, that dries the sweat and drowns us in sunny bliss. only one thing: it's a little too perfect for that. the one size fits all bliss makes the saturation of synth and mindless singing of pleasantness just as suited for a car commercial as it is for a euphoric club experience, and ultimately that's fine, who am i to say whether it definitively has soul or not, but even the video is filmed like a cheeky kind of advert, and we're not sure if the attempt at sentimentality is half-hearted or not. as the album closes, the ambiguity is gone, and one is left wondering whether they're relieved from the hazards of irregularity or whether they miss the idiosyncrasies instead.so much for keeping it short.
It seems that the more said about it would conflict with how relentlessly clean, sure, and sharp this album is. like the review for the forever busy apparat was wordy, the cold tension of this rather good techno album is going to stay subdued.but i'm trying to pack in the content, see, because this album has a lot packaged inside it's BEAUTIFUL exterior. i dont think anything's ever looked that good in plastic. "terminal" is a slick sleight of hand with its dry demeanor but quick cuts, "the blessing" is a messy, but smooth track, "acrostico" begins in a blurry haze of a satisfied comedown, but gets stabbed by similarly good-natured but suddenly dry synth. there's a pattern: and it lies mostly in making contrasts work to make layered and emotionally ambiguous compositions. it mostly works, sometimes it doesn't, like on the flatly boring 'shebangs' and then there's 'beautiful life'. the closer of sets, the end of a perfect day, the anthem to take us home, that dries the sweat and drowns us in sunny bliss. only one thing: it's a little too perfect for that. the one size fits all bliss makes the saturation of synth and mindless singing of pleasantness just as suited for a car commercial as it is for a euphoric club experience, and ultimately that's fine, who am i to say whether it definitively has soul or not, but even the video is filmed like a cheeky kind of advert, and we're not sure if the attempt at sentimentality is half-hearted or not. as the album closes, the ambiguity is gone, and one is left wondering whether they're relieved from the hazards of irregularity or whether they miss the idiosyncrasies instead.so much for keeping it short.
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