Do all of the following words actually go together in American English? The album showcases Olsen’s tongue-in-cheek approach to the musical plundering enabled by a globalized, and temporally boundless, digital age: in his world, the light mambo-fied riff on “Svensk Saas” becomes the perfect prelude to the towering neo-disco workouts “Strandbar” and “Delorean Dynamite”. It’s high-proof escapism, served with a wink. Best of all, It’s Album Time concludes in Todd Terje’s broadest gesture thus far, “Inspector Norse”, a track that converts the staccato hop-scotch melodic sense of early B-side “Reinbagan” into an intergalactic joyride.
Posted on: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 05:46:02 +0000
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