MONTAGE

"A year on, and she's returned with another amazing album, one curiously called Montage. Again finding Karie working with Kanda and Takai, it's actually less of a "montage" than Trapéziste, tonally working with a fairly consistent electronic palette, with Kanda, Takai, and even Cornelius (who turns up, in a dramatic return, on the eight-minute new-age-synth-sound electro-prog opus "Making Our World) working with sounds that Karie, as the album's producer, keeps from straying too far from its basical tonal brief. The album largely lolls along at a languid pace, tempo-wise, doing so even though its programmed beats and fragments of ersatz electro-tone are in a constant state of half-broken motion, the teasing fragments that're assembled into rhythm tracks often being truncated zips and zaps glued into place at a pace that belies the "busyness" of the edits." http://neumu.net