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Various Furry Logic (amc/Fusion III) File under: WOW! A downtempo bridge from Larry Heard to Nitin Sawhney. 9.5 (MS) Various Utom: Summoning the Spirit (360°/RykoDisc) Minimal, repetitive tribal music from the Philippines. Mysterious and mesmerizing. 8 (RB) Hamza El Din Escalay (Nonesuch/WEA) Remarkably rich and intricate music, given that it's just one old fart with an oud. 7 (RB) Various Detroit House Fever (BMG France/Fusion III) The word "Detroit" doesn't make up for the ho-hum of half the tunes here. Sorry. 7 (MS) Robert Miles 23am (Deconstruction/BMG) "Poetic" king of interminable-intro dreamhouse urges us to "listen to music with our hearts." Better than with our ears. 6 (MS) Secrets Teenage Rampage (Other People's Music) Three Viletones and a Diode smash it up on this 1978 reissue. 6 (LE) Midnight Oil 20,000 Watt R.S.L. (Columbia) Greatest hits... two new tracks... quaint '80s-isms... admirable activism... big in France. 6 (CY) Yes Open Your Eyes (Beyond) Hey, I've seen line-ups at the Spectrum for Over the Garden Wall. I'll believe anything. 3 (CY)
Creed My Own Prison (Wind-Up/Attic) Life sentence, no parole for unmitigated acts of shitty alterna-emo-metal. 2 (RB)
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