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Wax Tailor Album: “Hope & Sorrow”
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Release Date:2007-04-03
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Type:Unknown
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Genre:Electronic/Dance
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Label:Decon
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Explicit Lyrics:No
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UPC:829410808569
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Review - :
French DJ {$JC la Saout}, who records under the nom de club {$Wax Tailor}, has the wide-ranging musical erudition of {$DJ Spooky} without the latter's insufferable pretentiousness, and the Technicolor stylistic range of {$DJ Shadow} without the latter's tendency towards unwieldy sonic sprawl. He is also -- and this is interesting -- not obviously concerned with showcasing his Frenchness in any noticeable way. No {$Johnny Hallyday} or {$Indochine} samples, no accordions, no French-language found sound. Some of his guests are French, but they all sing in English and contribute to an album that could almost be called an exercise in musical Esperanto -- a mishmash of stylistic elements that draws from a wide variety of sources and adds up to something familiar-sounding but new. Not everything is spectacular, and like many of his colleagues, {$Wax Tailor} has a maddening weakness for between-song filler. But there's more than enough spectacular content here to justify the four-star rating. Highlights include the edgily funky {&"Once Upon a Past,"} the turntablist-goes-to-the-movies brilliance of {&"The Tune,"} and {&"That Case,"} with its jazzy flute multiphonics and {#Mission Impossible} bongo drums. Feel free to skip over {&"Alien in My Belly,"} which ends the album on a creepy and rhythmically disjointed note. Highly recommended overall. ~ Rick Anderson, All Music Guide
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