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The new album by Japanese moog masters Buffalo Daughter is a strange affair. But whereas strangeness in music usually should be a recommendation, listening to I, this quality somehow seems to work against the group. Buffalo Daughter operate in the same post-Beck universe of eclecticism as their compatriot Cornelius. But, as with the post-modern smurf himself, there seems to be a lack haunting the music. In general, this seems to be a side effect of music in love with its own cleverness, but here it is puzzling, because, for most of its duration, I is a rather nice album, the sort of album you put on and don't pay too much attention to, but changes tone and style as if you are listening to the radio. Even the lack of engagement or - I hate to say it - soul at times could work for the band, who, it seems, cleverly exploit their Japanese-identity-as-alien not only in the song titles such as Earth Punk Rockers or Robot Sings (As If He Were Frank Sinatra With A Half-Boiled Egg And The Salt Shaker On A Breakfast Table) or music-wise in the weird study of the human voice that is I Know, but in the whole presentation of the group on the cover art as almost alien beauties. In the end, there aren't enough good songs to sustain interest; for every beautiful pop song or weird anime track there are ideas that drown in their own cleverness, Earth Punk Rockers with its use of heavy Led Zeppelin riffs being the prime example. Indeed, one step further one should consider if this musical model of eclecticism has become outdated, a thing of the Nineties. Meanwhile, I should be of interest only to hardcore j-pop aficionados.
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/buffalo-daughter/i-1627/1627/
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