You Are Here by Banco De Gaia

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Reader Reviews
DJ ProFusion is right. I own every Banco de Gaia CD, except for the live album. All are basically excellent, with a few oddly clanging misfires; perhaps that's the price of experimentation. Toby Marks slipped a little bit on the still-excellent previous album, Igizeh. On that one, the misfire was a painfully saccharine experiment in sentimentalized conventional songcraft, with a veeeeery earnest delivery by Jennifer Folker of lyrics that would hopefully be banned as too trite for a Hallmark card. Disastrously, Marks has seen fit this time to fill an entire disc with same (the lone exception being track 2, Zeus No Like Techno, a kick-a** dance track squarely in the most commercial groove of the Banco tradition). I can only liken this album to having your mouth pried open and having an entire box of SugarTwin poured directly onto your tongue. Whether I buy another Banco de Gaia disc in my lifetime will depend 100% on whether this is a one-shot aberration, or the future of the act. Recommendation if you're new to Banco: The Magical Sounds of Banco de Gaia. Despite the flat-footed title, it's a brilliant disc from start to finish.

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