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Title: layering: 10, connection: 0
Review: Personally and speaking only for myself, it's all very well made, he knows his little tweaks and fiddles by now, and I'm sure his guest musicians were all on his wavelength. But by gawd, what a crashing bore - there seems to be no sense of emotion here, just lovely little droning ditties to package the new-found emotional centering in. It seems like Sylvian keeps getting more and more interested in making perfect little soundscapes as a means to an end, instead of using the 'scapes as a means for connection to a listener. It is terribly dissapointing from the person who (helped) craft(ed) pieces like Blackwater, Heartbeat, the whole Beehive album, etc. He's turned into the Steely Dan of the Eno set.
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