This Swedish electronic group is yet another example of musicians delighting in “retro” electronic sounds generated by old equipment. The beeps, blips, and spacey sounds that embarrassed the previous generation of electronicists now seem cool again, especially if they can be mixed with contemporary samples. Getting it to work — to make music that appeals to the ear, can be tricky. I would say that this album, released in 2006 and re-released in 2008, does so about half the time, notably with the skitter beat 2 (“Perm”), the strangely folky 3(“Bootstrap’) and 4 (“Kinoton”) with the only vocals, which make a nice sequence, but less so with the remaining tracks.
Pluxus: Solid State
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