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Title: Flawless yet strangely unsettling
Review: This is one of the most derivitative efforts I have ever heard, should that bother me?What am I listening to? Is that Richard Butler from the Psychedelic Furs? A lick from Boston? Some 10 cc, some Gabriel and probably a dozen other bands; bands that I love.Produced to the point that even the world music sounds homogenized and as smooth as a TV commercial soundtrack.In fact, a recent BMW TV ad used Brian Eno's luscious sounds from "Another Green World". Why? Why debase a classic when Mr. Henriksen could be to TV soundscapes what Danny Elfman is to movie soundtracks.Can he do it live? Is this a redux of slick acts like Steely Dan and Boston?Perhaps this gentleman and Ben Folds should get together and form a production company and leave the raw nacent creativity to those thrashing in a garage or garret somewhere...
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