10 Years by Banco De Gaia

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10 Years

Reader Reviews
Banco de Gaia (a.k.a. Toby Marks) is a frustrating artist. A good Banco track can be a wonderful thing - elevating, playful and obsessively complex and detailed. A bad Banco track can be a total trainwreck - a meandering, overlong, annoying and self-indulgent mess. Unfortunately, most of his album releases feel like a tug-of-war between the brilliant tracks and the so-so ones, thereby dragging down the overall quality of any given album. (Tellingly, "Last Train to Lhasa" is considered to be his best, and I suspect this is because it's a double disc where he put all the good songs on disc 1, and all the self-indulgent filler on disc 2 where one can safely forget it exists.) Because of the sharp division of quality in his work, I can think of no better candidate for a best of compilation than Banco De Gaia. His good material cries out to be presented in a single collection, and most of the good stuff is brought together here. Kincajou, How Much Reality, Drunk as a Monk, Amber and many other tracks on this comp are classics, making this a great place to start if you're just discovering Banco De Gaia or if you just want to have all the best stuff readily accessible. The only track I would have left off would have been the annoying remix of I Love Baby Cheesy (maybe replace it with Kuos or Seti I), but that's a minor complaint; this is collection does an excellent job of showcasing Banco De Gaia's strongest moments.

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