| · Time to get a life.
While the Euro magazines have counted The Life and Times of Phoebus Brumal among Fila Brazillia’s finest work, it sounds as if the band almost dropped the bong on this one. Yup it’s oh-so-quirky, appropriately odd and oh boyo it’s really got that electro-sheen that’s quite fashionable, but it’s also quite bland.
Fila Brazillia has, without a doubt, always excelled at combining influences and merging oddities, but this album sounds like they’ve been stuck in an elevator on K, listening to Vangelis or Harold Faltermeyer for too long.
Initially a good listen, after repeated spins the damn drum machine programming becomes too formulaic and, as a result, inevitably grating.
While The Life and Times of Phoebus Brumal charts its musical territory through every imaginable sector of the beat spectrum, it seems to lack the earnest fucked-up depth that characterized "Jump Leads" or "Luck be a Wierdo Tonight." This life and these times lead them to the silicone realm of vocodered, soulless Daft Punk rather than the intergalactic smoked-up world they usually visit. Not unlike most lives – it’s not bad just mundane.
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