| A record containing seven versions of the same song doesn't sound like such good value, but this album is overflowing with fresh ideas. Pedro, alias James Rutledge, won critical acclaim last year with the delicate folktronica of his eponymous debut. These remixes of one of the tracks from the album are even better and, paradoxically, make a more powerful and cohesive record. Prefuse 73 does his laptop cut-up thing, scattering shards of acoustic guitar and violin all over the place. Cherrystones turns the track into a twanging, honking mood piece, while Danger Mouse (who mixed The Beatles and Jay-Z into The Grey Album) gives it some hip-hop boom. But the tour de force is Four Tet's 21-minute version: Kieran Hebden's mix begins as a Faust Tapes-style post-rock jam before erupting into a riot of processed free-jazz blowing then collapsing into ambient noise. - Mojo |
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