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Downtempo, midtempo, electronic beats, organic guitar flavors (though generated live or synthed, I don't know), spacey flavors, a dab of trip, dub infusion ... yeah, there's a lot afoot here. But it's not a clumsy casserole cooked up in some half-assed wannabe's kitchen. Canartic finds a delightful cohesion in which to blend together a variety of flavors. There's a little bit of attitude fused with a lot of laid-backness, but by no means should any amount of chilledness be mistaken for lackadaisical fuck-offery. Nope. Canartic will have you succumbing to the grooves before you even know it. It's a stylish and versatile work of audio artfulness that is a little self-aware but deservedly so. Even if this is too low-key for your tastes, I bet you find yourself saying to yourself, "Hey, this is mighty good." If not, then fine, I was wrong. But don't you at least want to give yourself the chance to PROVE me wrong? Go ahead. Try. I dare you. -- review by Kristofer Upjohn
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