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AMG Review of Mantako
Nitsuh Abebe
All Music GuideIt's almost tempting to label Mantako a "pop" album (insofar as a project centering around Boredoms guitarist Seiichi Yamamoto can be considered pop) -- there's all of the wild chaos and screechy collage of a Boredoms record packed into the album, but it tends to return to traditional rhythms, sweeps of clean guitar, and lightly funky grooves right when you'd least expect it to. The result certainly won't prove accessible to Western listeners, or even most of the Japanese market -- but the project does lend something nicer, calmer, and more palatable to the sort of sounds the contemporary Boredoms trafficked in, and (at least in comparison) this makes for a fairly pleasant and incredibly interesting record.
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