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Ilium Plexiglass Cube EP (Hefty) Algebraic thinkrock that doesn't factor feeling out of the equation. By my calculations, that's a 9 (RB) Chocolate Weasel Music for Body Lockers (Ninja Tune) Only Ninja could make electro with Seinfeld bass sound even remotely cool. 8 (MS) Mercedes Sosa The Best of (Mercury/PolyGram) Crushing Evita on the diva-meter, the grand old dame of Argentina delivers the goods. 8 (RB) Robert Fripp The Outer Darkness (Discipline Global Mobile) Catching up with (or casting back for) the ambient fish he once fried with Eno. 7 (CY) K. Hand The Art of Music (K7/Fusion III) Sweet minimal Detroitisms that stretch into generics as an album that should have been an EP. 7 (MS) Singer Judah and Jah Children Band A Message to the World (Independent) Homegrown hydrophonic reggae. A tad too synthy, but that's the deal these days. 6 (RB) Bill Laswell/Style Scott Dub Meltdown (WordSound) Memo to Bill: watch yr spelling. You're mixing up quality and quantity again. 6 (CY) Monsieur Toad Nouvelle horreur (Farmer) A real "new horror": realizing that the metallo-death-prog monster never dies. 6 (CY) Various Hound Dog Taylor Tribute (Alligator) A host of blues artists get the words and notes right but fail to capture the soul of the great Hound Dog Taylor 4 (JC)
Yngwie Malmsteem Facing the Animal (Mercury/PolyGram) "Flight of the Bumblebee" through a Marshall stack, Yawn! 3 (JC)
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