Future Perfect
's second album,
The Nature of Time
, is perplexing for the wrong reasons. This is a collective of
electronica
artists, a group of people with very diverse backgrounds. The fact that the album was released on
Innova Recordings
, that this particular "work" was commissioned by
the Sonic Circuits International Festival
, and that the group had been performing in museums and art galleries should have announced
experimental
music ahead. That's not the case. Granted,
covers a wide range of
, from
drum'n'bass
to
glitch
ambient
; still, most of the music rehashes old ideas and sounds (gulp!) commercial. What can be said about
Christian Erickson
's
"Boxer,"
a nine-minute rendition of
Paul Simon
's most annoying refrain, except that
Fatboy Slim
could have done the same? And what about curator/
Zaftig
member
Chris Strouth
's rants on the nature of time and the advent of cuckoo clocks? Once again, the idea is not new. There are interesting moments though, like
Infengal Decrapulation
Neotropic
-like
"The Radar Threat."
It may be disguised as a cutting-edge modern
conceptual project, but this CD barely ranks above your average risk-free
label sampler. ~ Francois Couture