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Title: Good, but not *that* good
Review: I'm missing what everyone is raving about. Yes, lots of downtempo released these days (and yesterdays) is derivative, but that hardly makes this a masterpiece. Where I differ from the rest of the peanut gallery is that I've heard everything on this album done before and done better. Mukta does a better sitar (in part because they know how a sitar works instead of changing the synth voice to 'World - Sitar') and Piero Umiliani did these strings (change voice to 'Pads - Strings') before. Some of the synth work itself is not unlike the simpler work by Boards of Canada, but without the technical wizardry they use to turn their instruments from emulators into expressive tools.Hey, I still like this record, and I'd certainly buy it again. I just wanted to like it more than I do. I suspect that once Bonobo get a grasp on the capabilities of their tools and the concept of timbre becomes intuitive, they'll be excellent. For now I think they rate a Good.
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