GENRE | ELECTRO-MILQUETOAST
VERDICT | … YEAH, BUT NO
LABEL | TEMPORARY RESIDENCE LTD.
RELEASE | 10.2.12
Ultraista gets off the ground with listenable if not memorable electropop and flies straight and steady from there to snoozeville. The first few tracks are enough to get you interested, but hopefully you won’t be charitable enough to stick around for the second half: every track past number five on this 10-track album flows together into a sticky mass of musical static.
You could be forgiven for getting 15 minutes into the second half and wondering what a track the length of your average Fela Kuti song was doing stuck in this album, but
NO, SON, THAT WAS, LIKE, THREE DIFFERENT TRACKS AND YOU COULDN’T TELL.
While this multimedia trio may have an eye-popping collective musical resume (it is the brain-spawn of Radiohead’s Nigel Godrich) there’s no way to tell. There’s nothing egregious here, but there’s no meat either. Art should be a lot of things, beautiful or grotesque or compelling or devastating, but it should never be boring.
