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...when the band suddenly throws a damn hard rock song (“The Story of Jazz”) and a miscalculated cover of Sun Ra’s “Nuclear War” in the mix, the gentle giant of a compilation loses its way. Fortunately, this decline does not occur until the second disc’s final tracks, and this uncharacteristic sloppiness is redeemed by the lyrical ease of album closer “By the Time It Gets Dark...
...title track opens the album with a promising and well-layered beat that builds excitingly until a Vocoder voice starts repeating the words “we are human…after all.” Then the same eight measures repeat for the rest of the song and the Vocoder becomes maddeningly annoying. By the time the song ends at just shy of five-and-a-half minutes you’ll be damn glad it’s over...
...second song, “The Prime Time of Your Life,” has a weird crackly, loogie-hocking aspect to the beat that’s unsettling, quirky, and fun. But, again, it’s ruined by that stupid robot voice, this time saying “gonna do it…O.K. now…the prime time of your life.” For the last two-and-a-half minutes (more than half the track) it just devolves into an unexciting drone. Several of the songs on the album display this kind of depressing...
...album does have a pair of highlights, though. “Television Rules the Nation” has a beat cool enough to keep the song interesting, as does “Technologic,” in which a creepy artificial midget-voice repeats a string of ominous techno-words over an ever-changing and equally eerie backing. The latter recalls the frantic acceleration of “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger,” off of their masterpiece album “Discovery...
...Requiem for O.M.M. 2” kicks off “The Sunlandic Twins” with a hit of nostalgia. A sense of reverent déjà-vu comes through in the lyrical reflections on unfading memories and idyllic first love; sepia tints the obscurely winsome song title, the tipsy-carousel melodies, the stagily-intimate vocals, and the constant stream of giddy hooks...