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Despite his oversized, illuminated mouse-head mask and song titles like
and
Canadian producer
, aka
, has avoided any gimmicky novelty act labels thanks to his subtle and understated brand of electronica, which incorporates everything from minimal techno to euphoric house to chilled-out trance, a sound he continues to pursue on third studio album,
. Those only familiar with his breakthrough Top 20 collaboration with U.S.
,
a blissful blend of spacious synths, hypnotic beats, and the silky smooth tones of
, may be slightly disappointed, as apart from the robotic narration on the woozy,
-inspired opener
it's the only vocal-led track on the entire album. Instead, the follow-up to 2006's
concentrates on the kind of instrumental epics favored by the likes of
, with hands-in-the-air floor-filling anthems like
a dirty bass-led tribute to the late music software programmer Juan Antonio Arguelles Rius, the tribal progressive house of
and the warped techno of
nestling alongside after-party comedowns like the
-influenced
(featured here in its original and piano acoustic versions), the kaleidoscopic minimalism of
and the gorgeous
-esque dream trance of
the track cleverly sampled to great effect by both
. Indeed, it's a shame that
himself didn't utilize the latter song's potential himself, as a few more vocal melodies might have compensated for the album's sparse repetitive production, which isn't interesting enough to justify the over-long 70-minute running time.
shows enough promise to suggest that
could produce a classic in the future, but its self-indulgent, knob-twiddling nature makes it feel more like a recording of one of his DJ sets than a coherent studio album. ~ Jon O'Brien