Think In Electronic: album-review

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<span style="background-color: #ff0072; color: white; font-size: x-large;"> ALBUM OF THE WEEK </span></h2>
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<span style="color: #ff0072; font-size: x-large;">BANKS | GODDESS</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The last few years have hardly been short of the hazy, drone-like R&B outsourced from some of the brightest producers from the left-field electronic world. With its appropriation of hip hop's symbolism and drugged out aesthetic, vocals pitched down, warped into dreary mumblings as the beats they labour over disintegrate into abstract glitches and passing references to the genres they originally stem from. In a period where the lifeless drone and fatalistic chic of Lana Del Rey has crossed over into the type of mainstream appeal that warrants hordes of Tumblr posts with <i>Young & Beautiful</i> lyrics plasted over unrelated shots of nebulae and grayscale palm trees; one can't help but feel a sense of fatigue even before having pressed play on <i>Goddess's</i> first track. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Backed in the production department by Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Lil Silva, <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.thinkinelectronic.com/2014/09/track-of-day-sohn-chase.html">Sohn</a></span> and Shlohmo but to name a few, <i>Goddess</i> is not without its bright moments where Banks rises to the occasion, resulting in the restrained, Sunday afternoon flirtation that is <i>Warm Water</i> or the pulsing ballad of <i>Waiting Game.</i> In typical Shlohmo fashion, <i>Brain</i> immediately sets off into moody, synth-laden R&B territory with <i>This Is What Feels Like</i> flexing into more generic hip hop contortions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Where Banks shone on her <i>London</i> EP, due in part to its length allowing for a measured dosage of the warm sultriness of her voice paired with slow burning and often brooding atmospherics; that same aesthetic lingers on the side of testing over the longer album format, proving a somewhat drawn-out experience at certain points.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Perhaps <i>Goddess's</i> greatest misfortune is having to co-exist with the now Mercury Prize nominated debut album from FKA Twigs <i>LP1</i> which traverses similar terrain, instead with an intensely sensual sense of purpose and jarring, sparse production, leaving one to ponder whether it is perhaps a truer embodiment of a title like <i>Goddess</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">1. Alibi<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">2. Goddess<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">3. Waiting Game<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">4. Brain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">5. This Is What It Feels Like<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">6. You Should Know Where I'm Coming From<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">7. Stick<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">8. Fuck Em Only We Know<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">9.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.thinkinelectronic.com/2014/05/banks-has-us-drowning-with-her-latest.html" target="_blank">Drowning</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">10. Beggin For Thread<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">11.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.thinkinelectronic.com/2013/10/banks-prod-by-tim-anderson-change.html" target="_blank">Change</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">12. Someone New<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">13. Warm Water<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">14. Under The Table</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: 13.5pt;">Deluxe
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15. And I Drove You
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<span style="font-family: serif, serif;">16. Fall Over</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: serif, serif;">17. Before I Ever Met You</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: serif, serif;">18. Bedroom Wall</span></div>
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Banks Is A Goddess

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