Amazon.co.uk Review
The fourth album from
310, (a duo that create albums by sending tapes across the continent),
After All, has a magnificently broad scope, melding abstract hip-hop, ambient jazz, squelchy techno, and all manner of offbeat samples, field recordings, and the vocals of laconic rapper Andrew Siegler into one warped, genreless whole. It's ingenious, that's for sure; the many-layered tense spy-film dramatics of "Truce For A Moment" and the acoustic twangs and lurching breakbeats of "An Seanachi" are the essence of complexity. Trouble is, nothing here seems to completely click; lacking the focused, single-minded genius of individual producers like
Four Tet or
Manitoba--two music-makers that seem to value the freedom that complete autonomy gives them--much of
After All is meandering and inconclusive, a collection of over-elaborate doodles in search of a point. Who would have thought that it only takes two cooks to spoil the broth?
After All is proof that modern electronica is an exacting discipline. --
Louis Pattison
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