This music lacks soul.  It is shallow. It assaults the senses with annoying repetitive motifs.  It brings to mind Martha Bayles's excellent book&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Hole-in-Our-Soul/dp/0226039595/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Hole in Our Soul</a>&nbsp;(see my review).  Listening to it, I feel repulsed in a way similar to the way I feel manipulated by certain slick, hollow Hollywood movies.  Perhaps it is appropriate that this music might come to be seen/heard someday as reflective of late 20th century U.S. culture.