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Title: big sounds
Review: JXL's follow-up to 'Saturday Teenage kick' is incredible. The album crosses an amazing spectrum of electronica styles, without dwelling on a sound for more than a single song. More melody-based than JXL's debut, with finer tracks all round. Standout tracks are 'Legion', with its Rap/acoustic guitar juxtapose, electronic-punk anthem 'Power of big slacks', single 'Zerotonine', and dance-hall big beat 'Love like razorblade'. It's not all pulse-racing beats, however: Tracks like 'Synasthesia', with its mellow-out orchestral interlude, or 'Black Jack', which sets an instructional gambling tape to a degenerating drum beat and droning samples, allow you to regain your composture - momentarily, at least. The best electronic album I've heard so far, no contest.
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