PASTED LAKES

"Brooklyn's Nick Forté is one half of Christmas Decorations, whose Model 91 was a minor success for Kranky Records late last year. Pasted Lakes is Forté's first solo album, a scrap yard of cut-and-paste re-assemblage based largely on his previous experiments with computer music and apparently influenced by the fast-paced structure and attitude of old Wire and Minutemen records. As such, it will be no surprise to you to learn that Pasted Lakes' 15 tracks go by in only 33 minutes. It's electronic music, punk-style, cramming in as much as possible into limited space. As a result, Forté's compositions are often cluttered and suffocating, but never boring or tiresome."