Title: Downtempo Dustbin
Product review: I bet Koop doesn't even listen to this record. It's that bad.The album started promising, with the moody "Glomd"; I really liked the song's subtle harp touches and what felt like a house beat just waiting to come out and take over. Thankfully, that didn't happen, and the song remains understated and beautiful. The album pretty much took a nose dive after that, into unoriginal pseudo-Bjork territory (the next song, "Psalm," featuring someone named K. was pretty much a blatant rip-off of Post-era Bjork).The album production is mildly enjoyable -- almost sufficient (I particularly liked the accordion samples throughout) -- but ultimately it's a good thing this album is out of print. On this record, Koop has not yet become the fully-formed group that produced the great "Waltz for Koop," which is good from beginning to end. "Sons of Koop" is the sad, depressed teenage offspring of "Waltz for Koop." And even the band is likely to be eager to forget their formative years.
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