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The introduction to Metro Area, a short series of pulses should not be mistaken for the sound of a time machine taking you back to the disco era. It is the sound of entering a parallel universe where house never came into existence and disco just kept on growing into ever-greater levels of complexity and sophistication. This encapsulates the strange effect of listening to Metro Area: the sounds are dated almost without fail to pre-house times yet this music could never have been produced back in the seventies.
The past few months a steady flow of pre-release acclaim has grown for the album, with even some whispers of album of the year thrown in for good measure. Indeed during the first few tracks you will probably agree: the sweeping disco instrumentals filled with clever sound details and extravagant funky bass lines produce a whirlwind of joy. Even the sceptic voice back in your head that whispers Faze Action basically did the same thing on their debut album some years ago keeps quiet for a while. Dance Reaction is in a way the perfect Metro Area track, an intricate disco machine that forces you to throw all sort of clever dancing shapes with your body. Miura pushes further: strange voices building a neat cosmic version of disco, generating visions of the alien ship in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind hanging above a field full of dancing people, on Saturn.
Yet for all its continuous pleasure-giving potential there grows in the listener a tendency to let the mind wander after a while. Some tracks sound brilliant but just are not as interesting (the third circle of hell, fusion hell, at times beckons) and overall one is in danger of succumbing to that strange feeling of boredom when things always taste good. It is a criticism which in a way can be dismissed in the sense that in these times of short-attention spans we almost demand, without thinking, of our artists to possess a flexible style, where one should actually applaud Metro Area for just obsessively giving birth to their musical vision. Perhaps a suspicion keeps lingering because Metro Area combine a purity of retro and good taste, a closed-off world without any room for evolution. The imagination in short feels trapped.
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