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"My Favourite Kind of Irrelevance" focuses, according to the accompanying press materials, on the more accessible side of Metamatics & Norken. Personally, I would have preferred some exposure to the quirkier stuff; nonetheless, what we get is still an interesting brew. Very much minimalist, yet bright and with no unnecessary hollowness in the textures, these songs offer up tunage that is reserved yet assertive in a rather sublimely perky way. The songs flirt with glitch flavors frequently without fully crossing the border into that categorization. And there is a remarkable amount of catchiness to music that is decidedly underground in nature. However, this also reveals a smarter, less poppy side of electronica. And, as if to offer an invitation, "My Favourite Kind of Irrelevance" leads the listener gently into this strange, melodic world with a distinctive remake of Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus".-- review by Kristofer Upjohn
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