We have to listen to a lot of albums from different genres and styles to select our now traditional album of the month, sometimes it is a very hard process to select just one, I think that one of the most important factors to consider is how this album going to strike the music scene and cause some shock to other artists, this is a very subjective issue beacuse some tracks could be greatly innovative, but we are evaluating the entire album.

Recently I’ve listened to 3 different albums which have a lot in common, the are:
Aqua Bassino - Rue De Paris
Fantastic Plastic Machine - Imaginations
Stereolab - Fab Four Suture
What have they in common? Aren’t they different in their own style? You may be asking these questions, The answer is yes, they are radically different, but the 3 of them follow the same pattern or the same formula than their previous releases, let’s talk about a little bit of each one:

Aqua Bassino - Rue De Paris
It’s a fantastic album for creating a lounge atmosphere because almost all of it is downtempo, just a few tracks are house music in 120 or 125 bpm, It could be said that is incredibly well done, the arregments, the vocals, but it’s the same Aqua Bassino’s formula, if you know
his past albums, you will find the similarities.
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Fantastic Plastic Machine - Imaginations
This Japanese producer and DJ has a huge background exposing new ideas to renew the Japanese scene, Imaginations definitely is great for dancefloors, but I won’t compare it with Too (2003) in which every track has a story to tell and a renew way to edit a song, although he invited 3 incredible artists, like Tahiti 80 or Benjamin Diamond, in my own point of view is a quick-made album, therefore, with a lack of imagination, maybe I was expecting more about Fantastic Plastic Machine.
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StereoLab-Fab Four Suture
This one is the most faithful example of how artists could reclycling formulas, aparently Stereolab extract all the essence of their previous releases and put it on Fab Four Suture, they have all the tools to renew themselves, I don’t know why they haven’t done it, but don’t misunderstand me, this album is very cool if you don’t know their past works or if you are a Stereolab fan, The formula they always use could be 40% of sweet vocals by Laetitia Sadier, 30% of 60’s pyschedelia and 30% of electronic arragments, et voilá: you have a Stereolab album.
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Listen to the 3 of them and leave us a comment