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Title: "man, tis is disappointing"
Review: I loved Mr. Truffaz's album "the mask" and its super-hyper jazz. But his follow up is quite the opposite. "Mantis" for one incorporates a terrible cliched electric guitar. It sounds familiar to the style in which Nils Petter Molvaer uses it on his record "Tlon", which i recommend over this mess of songs. It seems that Truffaz has lost his edge and direction, which he tries to cover up by throwing random genres of music into boring, beaten-down tracks and surrounding those songs with even more lifeless music. Truffaz is great, just in a rut(i hope?).
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