THE BIONAUT
Lubricate Your Living-Room (Matador Records)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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You know, I want to like this record, but it's just too tedious to listen to for long. The mostly electronic songs all start out just great, with cool voice samples and loops and repeated musical refrains etc., but then they just keep going on and on, which is the reason I'm not a big fan of most electronic music anymore. There comes a time in this, as well as many electronic DJ records, when it's hard to tell whether or not this is music that's still being "played" by the musician, or if it's just something that was initially programmed in the first three seconds of the "song," leaving 5-10 minutes free for the artist to wander off and fix themselves a pot of coffee or reset the VCR clock. All these pieces need is some shift in tempo to catch the listener unaware, or some new loop thrown into the mix, or just something to break up the flow enough to keep me (and I can't be the only one out there) from just falling asleep.

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