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Review title: Muzak For the Masses
Product review: Revamping familiar songs in an orchestral style can go in two directions: a) Adding depth and power with multilayered grandness and/or haunting simplicity, or b) diluting the original spirit into elevator music. This album shuffles blindly and halfheartedly into the latter category. The starkness of the old synth-pop arrangements remains, but all the punch has vanished. It's understandable that orchestral music doesn't always lend itself well to DM's danceable angst, but where this revisioning should've introduced a more mature sadness or a powerful majesty, there is only a light, soft blandness.Too faithful to the original songs and too faithless to its own potential, this album is an empty bit of nothing. Bear in mind, this judgement comes from not only a DM fan, but also a fan of remixes of all stripes. It's not just how bad it IS that disappoints me... it's also how good it could have been.
