AnthroWobbly

Not among Walker's most memorable, but certainly a fun album to listen to once or twice.

It's a puzzling thing. On one hand, it's a nifty little idea to run ultrasound audio through synths and manipulate the results through editing to create an ambient record. On the other hand, presenting said manipulation as if you had nothing to do with it and giving all the creative credit to an unthinking, unfeeling, unalive mass of still-developing tissue, as if it were consciously composing something every time it bumped against the microphone, is absurd and offensive on multiple ... read more

Floating Points is one of the most daring musical acts of this generation, unafraid to dive into any musical style that suits the vision. The project's previous release was arguably an electronic music master stroke that presented as typical DJ beats but quickly showed itself as being something much deeper once one scratched the surface. Sam Shepherd, the DJ behind the project, looms large among his fellows in his creativity and sense of vision. He's arguably up there with other greats like ... read more

How many years has this band been a thing, now? And their sound hasn't progressed one little bit. Not only that, but I wasn't exactly the biggest fan of their music even back when they were hot. I certainly can't say I was the intended audience for this release, and yet I also wonder if even the old fans would be satisfied by such a safe, stagnant record after all these years without new output from the band. It just seems as if so much effort was made to get a new album rolling only for so ... read more