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mis oidos como, u u eso me duee u u, mi cerebro como, ooo esto es sampleable, la musica ooooo me comere tu paciencia
Interesting background music with Indian influences. Quite interesting but not my thing.
This was kind of interesting but also kind of weird.
Interesting. Very diverse and well thought out. I enjoyed listening. I was not aware of the political tie-ins before reading through the Wiki, but I would revisit.
This felt long, but varied. Some of it was interesting. Not interesting enough to warrant being part of this in my opinion.
There's an interesting concept in this album, but the songs aren't good enough for me to be really interested. In it.
I appreciate what he was going for here. Trip hop is one of those genres that intrigue me the most, with all of it's mixing and matching giving way to endless possibilities. When trip hop is good, it's REAL good, but there's also a precarious balance between dullness and mood-building that artists have to be wary of. In this case, there are some bright moments on this album and I love the introspective blending of cultures. However, it doesn't stick the landing the whole way for me to give it a higher score. I'd even argue it devolved too much into contemporary pop that slowly dissolved it's cinematic atmosphere, and I wish the whole album was more like it's gorgeous first three songs. Overall not amazing, but certainly interesting and daring; I can't say I've heard anything like it so far!
This is a hard pull because a) this is what I'm really hoping for, things I absolutely would never have stumbled over otherwise, but also b) it is hard to not have the nagging feeling of “well, OK, but this thing I've never heard of is here, but not this thing I have?” But ultimately I would rather hear a thousand one albums I've never heard of and don't like than even one more White Stripes album (which, at some point, I know I will have to do). I question the wiseness of a trip-hop album about nuclear proliferation. Can you chill out to that? Can you dance to it? But I am open to it (even if I would be more excited if this was actually from India and not from England). It does immediately fall into the classic trip hop trap, though: indistinct lady vocalist, clunky lyrics, general vibe of about a decade earlier in the world of cheese. It's inauspicious, but it improves right off the top with “Letting Go,” which has better vocals, smoother music, and punctuations of traditional music. The album goes back and forth a lot. Along with outdated club vocals, we see the other traps: tepid unremarkable nobody rappers, storytelling done through soundbytes, the heavy handed, grade school lyrics. But it also has those unexpected accents of a homeland, sometimes more forward (Nadia improves the vocals here by leaning into the eastern, for example). There's the jazziness of Tides, which is a nice little diversion. Even the biting percussive vocals on Serpents adds a bit of intrigue. It's a whole thought, it's unexpected, but it's also not consistently good. I'm glad to go through it though. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Now this is some proper stuff. Eclectic, actually about something, nice amount of repetition so that you understand the vibe without getting bored. Really nice. Seems like folks on here don't care for the same kinda electronic music as me.
A couple of nice tracks in Falling and Tides abd some nice percussion. Falling i will add. Otherwise other chillout artists do it better.
The rikitarikitikitaka vocal parts are pretty cool but overall this is maybe a little to earnest for my musical tastes - didn't enjoy quite as much as some of the other Anglo Indian entries - Talvin Singh, Cornershop..
Too incoherent for me. Lots of styles pinned together with traditional Indian vibes. Felt like Craig David could guest vocal on a few tracks, which isn’t a good thing. It took until the final track for me to get the nuclear warhead skits. Found that all a bit bizarre for a 1999 album.
Not for me
Ikke for meg.
Wow, another artist I've heard for the first time here. It was a great experience to be able to hear this album and it's mix of very different music styles and different vocalists. So this is a thematic album based on nuclear war, specifically I suppose between a nuclear armed India and it's neighbours. Very unique, pretty cool. An extremely talented artist giving me a blend of Indian styles, flamenco styles, electronic music and more. 1. "Broken Skin" I loved the first track that drew me in because it was intriguing. 2. "Letting Go" was just OK 3. "Homelands", has to be my fav. 4. "Pilgrim" is a rap that's OK, not my thing and even if it was not anything other than OK. 5. "Tides" a nice piano instrumental that probably goes on for too long by about a minute imo. 6. "Nadia" is another electronic music track that's pretty good if you're into that. 7. "Immigrant" is back to the piano this time with vocals and fairly well done but not captivating for me. I was unable to find who did the vocals anyway. 8. "Serpents" was more attention grabbing for me than track 7, but they're very different things. 9. "Anthem Without Nation" back to the drums and trad. singing that has a lot going on. Vocals are Indian style but the drumming was more African, clue was in the title of course. 10. "Nostalgia" 90s style UK trip hop track that has a high level of replayability, again aptly named. 11. "The Conference" Monty Python transcribes another culture having a meeting plus ethnic music? Bizarre. 12. "Beyond Skin" Oppenheimer -revised and/or edited - inteviews. "A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita. 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'" 3.9/5
not a bad listen for a mellow mood 2/5
Aside from Homelands, this is just Dido but with some Indian stuff and talk about nukes. I'm not sure how something so generic makes it onto the list when a groundbreaking artist like The Gathering fails to appear at all. Most of the some have cool intros, but then they devolve into 90s boy band beats.
Never heard of this before. The nuclear theme is interesting, but not the type of music I would usually listen to. Tides I enjoyed a lot though.
Nice background music 3/5
XTC’s “This World Over” but an album! And a meh one at that!
Somehow, this record managed to be irritating and boring at the same time. Atrocious.
0.5 , this was a horrible listen
the album cover captures how i felt listening to this monstrosity
Different. Not much else to say.
Like I yell to strangers when driving down the highway, “Dude! Pick a lane!!!”
There were a lot of pretty awful generic world music genre crossovers in the 90s. The kind of stuff you'd hear in your local independent bookshop or purveyor of newage healing crystals run exclusively by 50 year old white women. This is certainly one of them.
It was a little all over the place. I enjoyed a few of the tracks. Others were dreadful. Not really my genre so hard to judge...giving it a safe three.
Zaczyna się bardzo dobrze, jak jakaś Erykah Badu. Potem robi się dziwnie tribalowo. 3
Interesting. Not sure it’s a top album, but worth a listen.
Honestly wasn't terrible, now it wasn't that great either but it had some solid moments. Like whoever is singing in Immigrant, her voice is beautiful af and it carried the album for me!
One of those albums that could not end quick enough. Nothing redeeming about this to my ears.
This felt like a mash-up, mix tape. One minute I’m listening to a sitar with Indian vocals, the next they’re serving up a “rap” style song, followed immediately by a classical song. I actually enjoyed the individual tracks, but there was no cohesion across the album.
Throwing together a bunch of seemingly disparate genres without much rhyme or reason does not make an innovative “fusion “. It just means you threw a lot of different shit at the wall and, In this case, none of it stuck. This is bad all over the place. The idea of tracing the incubation of the atomic bomb is interesting fodder, but if you want to see an exploration of this that actually works, look to Picasso and Dalí's abstract expressionism in visual art, butoh in dance or lots of 70s and 80s heavy metal and industrial music, where the goal is to sound like a thrashing and mechanical destruction of the normal world.
Unique mashup up of sounds and I do love me a good concept album so I started off very open minded and I have to admit I enjoyed the first 10 -15 minutes. But then I realized it just another crappy electronic album that plays the same sounds over and over and over and over. I've hated others more, but this was far from good.
Album #164: Nitin Sawhney – Beyond Skin ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Never heard of this guy or this album, and I doubt I would have discovered it out in the wild. This was a total validation of why I’m doing this project. And I was disappointed to see it rated so low on the list. This is the kind of weird shit I want to find. I’ve heard The White Album, I’ve heard Blood on the Tracks, but I’ve never heard Beyond Skin. And fuck me, there’s a lot going on here. It’s actually unfair to review this one after one listen and one day with it. But it’s a guaranteed four stars for me because of how much it made me think. It gave me a similar feeling to Opus Dei by Laibach. It’s not an album I would throw on in mixed company or anything, but it’s deeply interesting and deserves a lot of time. Reading the first paragraph on Wikipedia and seeing it was about nuclear war and that the genre was drum and bass, I was expecting some heavy, face-melting shit. I was really looking forward to it, actually! Instead, the bomb doesn’t drop until the very last track, and everything before that is quiet and semi-serene electronica. It’s a genre-bender, with Indian music, trip-hop, drum and bass, hip-hop and balladry. It’s not all amazing, but it’s all very unique and engrossing. I haven’t got my head totally around it yet, but on initial impressions, I think it’s an album about the displacement of people. It’s sad for the most part, but there are these sinister BBC news reports littered throughout that keep the mood very on edge. As I’m sure is common, nuclear war is a terrifying fear of mine, and this album filled me with dread. My final note is that, even if you dislike the album, you would have to appreciate the song Tides. That is one of the most beautiful piano compositions I have ever heard. A gorgeous song. An exhausting, powerful piece of music. Totally unique and totally worthwhile.
Love it. I think I have heard Immigrant before but not the rest of this. Highlight is Serpents.
Looking at other albums by this person, I understand why this sounds like a boring movie soundtrack
Pretty good at times, if it was shorter it likely would have gotten a 4/5.
All the DOWNs are encapsulated in this one album. DOWNer-TEMPO says it all; too slow and too mellow. DOWNer-theme.. nothing scarier to think about than Nuclear weapons testing and remembering the Indian/Pakistani nuclear scare of the 90's. DOWNer - emotions - This album is just en emotionally draining downer. There was little to no enjoyment for me here. I did a fast forward through most of it. The lead female vocalist has a lovely voice, but that's about the depth of my enjoyment.
I made attempts to listen to this album on two different days. Stayed a little longer the second time, but I just can't finish this. How am I simultaneously anxious, annoyed, and bored?
Саванный электротрип. Сумасшествие не иначе. Я был зациклен на нем более двух недель, однозначно один из лучших прослушанных мной альбомов. Совмещение восточного звучания с электронной музыкой, при полной уверенности нахождения в саванне. Вы явно сможете представить укротителя змей и собственно станете этой змеёй чтобы альбом вас укротил и позволил мысленно увидеть окружающую вас саванну. Оценка 9/10!!!!
Often, when listening to "unconventional" music, you think, "What did the author mean?" In this case, the English-Indian Nitin Sawhney (whom I'm hearing for the first time) outlined the album's concept right in the booklet. It consists of a countdown from the Indian nuclear tests that took place during the album's recording to Robert Oppenheimer's quote, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." The description is interesting, but the same can't be said for the sound, as the entire album is a disjointed mess of electronics like Morcheeba, Indian chants and folk instruments, and some rap... The result is a unique piece: a concept album without a concept. And if you browse Nitin's discography on streaming services, everything becomes clear: most of his works are soundtracks, meaning he's adept at capturing the feeling of background music accompanying the events onscreen. But it is unrealistic to perceive this album as a complete work.
Meh
Honestly enjoyed this more than I thought I would. I’m not qualified to discuss the Indian Diaspora and Nuclear Proliferation, but I felt like this was a cool expression blending a lot of different styles.
Lyssnade en tredjedel av albumet. Udda indisk-rap-elektroniskmix?!??
Quite enjoyed much of it, but put off by the more pretentious elements. Wouldn't seek it out again.
An interesting fusion of eastern and western music. I enjoyed the overall tone, even if a few tracks did lose my attention a tad. Unlikely to revisit but found it enjoyable enough.
It's amazing how time can change your perspective because, if I had heard this back in the late 90s or early 2000s, I probably would have been a huge fan. Hearing it now, though, it's definitely a product of its time, almost like a time capsule. Overall, it's a very worldly, smooth downtempo album with the atmosphere of a rainforest. It's pretty much the type of album you'd listen to on a dark, cold, rainy night in the year 2000.
diverse beetje raar sommige maar sommige liedjes zijn oke ik heb zeker slechter gehoord
npc hotel muziek
8/10 , Beats top
Nice, chill, easy listening
Hahaha no
This is a really incredible fusion of hip-hop beats and English and Indian, cultural influence and vocals. This is definitely an album full of museum type music, I mean, each song feels intellectually, elevated and polished, almost to a point It’s hard to relate to. Sadly, this music feels like it was meant for a world imagined in the 90s that never really came to be. These days, it doesn’t feel like an album I would throw on to listen to in many situations; it feels more like the type of music someone would play to brag about how culturally enlightened they are. Still, there are tracks that I found really nice: I thought the immigrant was quite moving. I also really enjoyed the rapid Hindi vocals on homelands and the conference. Also, for me this music reminds me of the soundtrack of Sim city 3000 and the Sims.
I respect the different cultures, really I do. And I appreciate the pretty blatant nuclear bomb commentary, those can be pretty scary. However, this was written in 1999, not 1949, why is it so self indulgent? And why on earth does this go for almost an hour??? I have come around to the fact that this is the exact kind of album I'd expect on this list, and one I never expect to hear again. 1 star.
It is the most chill contemplation and meditation on nuclear warfare and identity that I have ever heard. An intriguing idea with an imperfect exploration. The concept of the album is truly more interesting than the execution. BEYOND SKIN ultimately ends up being a fairly underwhelming exploration of acid jazz for 58 minutes. I actually enjoy acid jazz, but this didn't feel special enough to be included on the list, even back when it came out, at the apex of acid jazz. Perhaps with more listens I could be convinced that I am wrong. Faves: "Pilgrim", "Immigrant", "Serpents"
This did not do anything for me. Maybe one or two songs that I could get behind but otherwise, nothing.
I don't know what this record is about or what it's aiming for - I guess there is something 'beyond the skin' but its skin-deepness is also apparent, i.e., it seems to possess a beauty for beauty's sake ethos, & I'm struck by the superficiality of the project. It does, in fact, command some sort of beauty, & I admire its admixture of both genre & language (shoutout to Spek from Canada's Dream Warriors), but the simultaneity of all-over-the placeness w/ languid, incoherent politics makes for a boring & confusing listen. 'Life is like a puzzle not pieced yet.' I wish Sawhney spent more time piecing it together, but Beyond Skin, in the end, gives you weak Bill Evans + pleas for a better, nuclear-free world. I agree (obv), but something cultish 'bout this.
Hard to rate. Some interesting tracks but nothing really holding it together.
stark 3a, konstigt men gillade
geen idee wat dit is... maar staat niet op mijn lijstje van 100001 records
This was ok. I guess? Even though it’s “world music” this felt like mostly pretty tame western music with a few samples thrown on top from India.
**A wierd sounding album to me.
Better than I expected but dragged on too long and very samey
Why
music is love
I appreciate the sentiment about the use of nuclear weapons and the protest of them. But I don’t like this sound very much, I do very much like tablas
Nitin Sawey Nadia was cool. I liked the singing. The Electronic trip hop stuff can get boring. Immigrant was cool. too. Tough one to rate.
This was well made and some cool harmony and rhythm but i feel like there is no purpose to this record and it was kind of a slog to get through. 2.5
I feel asleep twice!
See, I don't really mind hotel lobby music. It's pretty unremarkable, sure. And yes, it still irks me that this list included 50 mediocre 90s UK Electronic/Trip Hop albums but no MF Doom.... but that's old news.
I wanted to like this more, but it lost its momentum toward the end. A 2.5 feels more appropriate, but that's not an option, is it?
Found myself truly enjoying certain spots of this album. I've heard the name Nitin Sawhney but this is my first time actually giving him a listen. If everything is like this, I can understand the appeal. Obviously, some of this was not made for honky white guys, let alone the ones in America, but I think the underlying theme of the album is admirable.
Good D&B work that reminds me a little bit of peak Portishead and has a moral mission to it that undergirds the whole project though it regularly drops down to room tone stuff. Little surprise that Sawhney took the movie composer bag
I kind of liked some of the concepts here but definitely not the execution. Why does all British electronic music sound like this?
How is THIS album on here..?
I have fatigue, is that racist? I'm not sorry and it will happen again. Couldn't finish this but it wasn't unlistenable I suppose
It’s an interesting attempt at mixing electronic sound with Indian influences. However, not every song works which makes this record feel overlong and repetitive. I don’t really think it’s significant enough to be on the list.
Good album. Mix of pop sounds and Indian influences. There’s a couple mostly instrumental tracks, a rap style track delivery which I don’t think is very successful, and some spoken overdubbing sections.
A couple of really good tracks surrounded by several mediocre ones.
Second time listening, it sounds exactly what you’d expect from the son of Indian immigrants in England around the year 2000. A bit of fluff but overall pretty good
Beyond shit.0.00
This is an amazing album. The two worlds of English electronic music and Indian classical hits hard. Reminds me of Shakti in some ways.
A good album, I liked Letting Go, Homeland and Nostalgia the most.
Never heard of album or band. First song is pretty cool. Generic pop. Good chorus, really nice production. Not really a fan of letting go. Nothing special about it. Not my style of music. Interesting production but doesn’t work as well as the first one. They’re at least trying on the production in homeland to do something cool, it’s just not that good aside from the drums. I want more from the strings and less guitar. Could’ve been a minute shorter too. Hate pilgrim. This guy shouldn’t be rapping. The lyrics aren’t bad but the flow is bad. doesn’t help that the beat kinda sucks too. Nice fade Into tides. Nice piano on this one. Didn’t feel like this song needed vocals which is a good sign. Nadia is a generic euro electro beat with the same lyrics on repeat. I hate those types of songs. I like immagrant better but still not for me. At least it more poppy. With that being said I’m one more song like this away from bailing out. This album isn’t for me. Not bad, just not for me so it never getting above a JAA imo. I think it is cool how they brought together aspects from multiple cultures of music it just doesn’t always work together. And every song is a minute too long. Cool production to open up serpents. It just doesn’t go anywhere. And with that in done. It’s not going to grow on me at all. All the songs sound the same. Straight up JAA. Wouldn’t say it’s good or bad. It’s truly just another album. 1.8/5 stars.
There are doubtless some extremely talented musicians on this, but this kind of vaguely trip-hop, noodly, late 90s, pseudo-drum 'n bass, nu lite soul is super frictionless and utterly vacuous. Tedium with flutes and weak beats.
A immersive listening experience. As I walked the dog, I had my own personal soundtrack for the world. Gorgeous and lush.
It is quite a diverse record. The theme seems to be the threat of nuclear war. The first two songs, Broken Skin and Letting go, are quite good. The female vocal is quite good. Then we have rap songs and songs of Indian chants. There is a nice blend of real and electronic instruments here. This album has some good moments but still average. Three stars.
I thank “Beyond Skin” by Nitin Sawhney for bringing the thunderstorm warning earlier than expected. This is a great album if one wants to fall asleep, be woken again, and leave eternally annoyed. Don’t get me wrong; I am completely for cross-cultural fusion, and I very much enjoyed it with albums like “Clube Da Esquina” by Milton Nascimento, which actually does it pleasingly. I tried my best to like this album and figure out what I was missing from the five-star reviews, but I am so sorry; this is just noise. I felt like I was at some sort of secret society convening at a liberal arts college with people in long skirts playing the biggest game of impostor. I truly envy the people who gave this album a five-star rating because I know my larping skills will never be as good as theirs. This album is the epitome of musical ragebait. How do you call this a concept album when half of the songs do not relate to nor evoke the emotions of nuclear weapon-related whatever? And please. How do you call this experimentation or even INVENTION when this man is just blending sounds that were NEVER meant to be together? For example, in “Pilgrim,” he blends rap (talking?) over a weird chill lofi beat with some random strings, which does not go well at all. Additionally, what was he thinking with “Nadia?” A seemingly calm and soothing voice blended with an upbeat drum beat? If Nitin Sawhney has any musical awareness, he should understand that some sounds are meant to mesh together and some aren’t. You know it’s bad when the album is so terrible that you need to look at other one-star reviews to get laughs toward the end of the album. I really tried my best, but I truly could not take it. 1/5
Sure
Like that friend who promises a wild night out but then suggests book club instead. Where's the pulse-racing fun? Spins: 1 Playlist Additions - Homelands - Tides - Nadia
Probably my favorite album that I knew none of the songs in before this listen.
I have no idea what to think about this album. I do know that tossing an Oppenheimer quote in there doesn’t make your album deep. Some genuinely interesting songs, but the tonal whiplash can be a bit much at times. Not the worst thing I’ve heard on this list
Super interesting album. All over the place stylistically, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I thought the nuclear bomb through-line was interesting too. The song the "The Conference" made me want to rip my ears off, but otherwise I enjoyed nearly all the songs. Not really my style though so I'll stick with 3.
This was pretty cool. I really enjoy the fusion of traditional music with modern musical elements and production. I don’t really feel the depth of the message the album is supposed to have, but as background or ambient music, I think it more than succeeds. It’s pretty cool. I could see myself listening again. High 3/5.
It was definitely a unique sound. Some of the songs were better than others. The more important point is if you check spotify this guy has the most self inflating bio of all. Made me laugh.
really fun, i liked working to this a lot.. didn't save any songs though
I actually quite enjoyed a lot of this. Found it to be quite and engaging listen and the concept is certainly an interesting addition to the music. Not too bad.
Gotta be honest, first three tracks or so I liked more than I thought I would. But u can't do this for a whole hour
Quite magnificent.
2.5/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/nitin-sawhney/beyond-skin/ No idea what this is doing on the list. Some songs were nice (the ones that sounded like they could be Portishead or Massive Attack hand-me-downs) but others just were boring, overlong, cringy or annoying.
Interesting. The nuclear story thread was cool, liked the South Asian influenced tunes, but a lot was very forgettable.
Me resultó bastante mezclado en estilos y aura. Pero bien.
Ok chill electronic tunes. The Conference was the highlight with its extreme scattiness. Quite a strange song which sounded very out of place, but by far the most interesting.
Tried several times. Throwing in the towel.
Homelands was really cool. Reminds me of the little Pujabi music I know and various latin or latin inspired western artists. Very cool song Tides was also super impressive
Some interesting tunes!
wacky, but interesting!
Really interesting album. Should listen to again to pay more attention.
Absolutely amazing. I'm sorry I didn't discover this music until now, so many years after its release. I'm grateful for the existence of the 1001 Albums list, because it led me to an album I might never have found on my own. It completely blew me out of my chair.
Beautiful music but belies the pain that is supposed to be communicated through the music. I love the fusion of the Indian these and stylings of the music with electronica, and the samples included are interesting and thought provoking. I don't know if this is one of those I NEEDED to hear, but I'm glad I heard it. My Rating: 3/5
Good music.
It was okay. Odd mix of sounds and moods, but was not offended by it while working
A pretty interesting electronic album that fuses a lot of different sounds, but it's not something I'm itching to revisit. I did like the continuing theme of nuclear warfare and the Oppenheimer sample at the end. 6/10
i wanted so bad to like this album and part of me did but the other way left confused
Considering the heavy nature of the lyrics and message of this album I feel a bit bad for calling it background music from a 90s video game. But it sounds like background music from a 90s video game.
I really liked the instrumentals on this album. It’s hard to explain how they make me feel but they really resonated with me. That being said there were many parts of the album that were a slog to get through. Overall an ok listening experience
Loved the nuclear weapon scenery, goes well with the album cover. Sonically pleasing as well
This sounds like what I assumed adults listened to when I was a child.
Pretty cool
Experimental and very cool but don't see myself listening to the whole thing a lot. Some select songs maybe
Lots of interesting sounds on this album that seems to take a look at nuclear history backwards from the (then) present day toward the atom bomb. The varied music from track to track kept me from getting bored early on, but I have to say that crept in partway through. I did think the mouth sounds in The Conference were pretty impressive. I appreciate getting something that feels unique rather than "another rap record... another rock record..." so an extra star for originality, even though I doubt I'll be listening to this again.
Every song seemed to go a minute or two too long. They weren't bad, just long.
3.5 Really interesting album, I'm glad I listened as it's truly something different. But several of the songs let it down a bit, and not all of the style shifts fully work I feel
Lo encontré interesante pero no bueno
Es puro ruido wtf, ni siquiera me dieron ganas de terminarlo. Espero que se decidan en un solo género musical para su próximo álbum y no en 10
Interesting album. I have a fondness for drum and bass, but this took on a much slower and contemplative tempo than those albums tend to go, and for the most part it was just okay. I preferred the more up-tempo grooves like Serpents or Beyond Skin, myself.
Another new to me album and artist. Listened through a few times and enjoyed it. The Conference is a skip track for me. It didn't seem to fit in with the other tunes. The rest was a groovy blend of down tempo trip hop electronica. I would've liked the wiki page to list the musicians on the album. Delving into the people who helped make an album come to life is always of interest to me. Also, Nitin has played with some pretty heavy hitters in his career. It's impressive that dude can call up Sir Paul and ask him if he wants to write a song and he agrees to it. As I'm coming to the end of this project I need to thank Alex again for the generator. I'm not finding this music on my own. This whole thing has been fantastic.
Interesting fusion album. A little weird/boring but better than I expected based on previous reviews.
A pleasant surprise.
The female vocal sections are great, the trip hop sections are not. This is an interesting fusion overall, even if the cover is truly awful. 3/5
Nitin Sawhnwy - Beyond Skin ⭐️ Only three weeks into the project and I feel like some of my reviews are already a bit repetitive. I guess there’s nothing wrong with the technical musicianship on this album, but boring music like that does absolutely nothing for me.
Sawhney's resume is stunning. I liked the music, but wasn't really drawn in.
It was an interesting listen, but I doubt I’ll ever come back to it.
Sonically was a bit all over the place. Looking into it - it was about nuclear bombs! I need to listen again with this insight - the final Oppenheimer quotes of ‘that book I can’t remember the name of’ were chilling.
Highlights: Broken Skin, 2.2
Got this one when I was having a rough day with all sorts of bad thoughts winding around inside my head. It helped calm and ground me.
Tender, contemplative electronica; pre-dawn yearning and prescient pre-millennium tension (little did we know how much tension the new millennium would bring!) and a constant Indian counterpoint that often becomes "point," a tradition of which I know so little, and memories of a skinny, curious, elaborately hoodied former self I don't often enough spend time with.
Soul, mysigt! Också typ jungle och trip-hop? fantastiskt!
Never heard of him or this album. But what a CV the guy has. I thought this was a reasonable listen, although some of the more 'ethnic' tracks dragged on. The album art is pretty off-putting too. 2½
The negative reviews for this album are so fucking funny, half y'all are just making strawmen because you think it sounds like music a hipster would listen to??? When will we have mercy on the millennials lmao? To me this album is at it's best when it leans into its Indian influences, especially when they pull out the tabla drum, its such a good percussion instrument. Elsewise it's a pretty standard 90's electronic album that prioritizes ethereal soundscapes and hip-hop/jazz instrumentals. I imagine if I understood all the various languages across the album the general anti-nuclear message would be a lil more potent. Without the understanding the news report openings sounds like the memes where people try their hardest to put something emotional before a Midwest emo song. Shoutout to "The Conference" for sounding like a katamari damacy song. Every artist who doesn't feature scatting at least once on their album is a coward. 3/5
Pretty pretty pretty good
50 minutes into this album and I've come to realise I didn't really find any part of this album I actually liked listening to. I do like the concept, this weird Hindi-infused Trip Hop Ambient music. Like a lot of 90's albums, they don't really do anything interesting with the concept. Songs are too stretched out and the beats are nice but not really more than that. Wish it was better.
Instantly reminded me of the late-90s lo-fi Bristol wave. A genre I've generally enjoyed although the theme & subject matter here don't exactly scream "hipster dinner party" or "trying to impress a girl I've invited round to my house" vibes either
meh
I don't understand where some of the reviews for this album have come from. This is a really nice downtempo electronic album with some great soundscapes, vocals and elements of classical, jazz, soul and hip-hop. I genuinely feel like had this album had someone else's name on it who is more prominent, the reception in here would have been very different. It's all in the first half though, second half is pretty unremarkable, but first half is good, Tides especially is some top tier stuff. Reminded me of Talvin Singh - OK which i got a couple of days ago and won the mercury prize, but i really didn't rate that album, this is miles better. 3/5 Top Tracks: Letting go, Tides, Pilgrim
really dig this brand of late 90s / early 00s electronic music. Very cool concept and execution
This is a great album. I especially loved the track Homelands. A beautiful blend of Indian influence and electronica!
One of the best things about this challenge is re-finding 'lost' songs. Letting Go is a track I absolutely love, I'd forgotten all about it, and haven't heard it in years! I don't even know where I know it from! I really loved listening to this album today with its mix of influences, I'm a sucker for trip-hop, adding in some world music is the cherry on the cake. I'm a surprised by the top rated 1 star reviews and general low rating of this album? I consider 1 star an almost unlistenable album - this is such cruisey, interesting, chill vibes, inoffensive music! I may come back later and change this to a 5, because I'd love to add once of these tracks to the 5 star playlist, but its probably more like a 4 for the whole album - fuck it, life's too short, 5 it is.
I enjoyed listening to something that I would never have found and listen to otherwise. It was interesting to hear sounds that are from another culture and different from the typical USA music styles and archetypes. It was relaxing and fun to have on as background music that was still mentally stimulating, but not something I think I'd seek out to listen to again.
Just read about this guy. How come I’d never heard of him before? Apparently extremely accomplished. It’s smooth and cool. Very polished soundscapes. Super mesmerizing. Chill. World music + electronica. Letting Go sounds a little like Portishead. Towards the end, began to get a little bored. Overall, this is pretty good.
7.5/10
2.3 2x
really weird and i am not sure whether i like it or not so it gets the three of indecision
i dunno i'm skeptical. music with a clear sociopolitical program? never before. first two tracks are fine. i enjoy the indian influences much more than the hip hop. homelands--now we're talking. not a single word in english. it sounds like ... the gypsy kings? are on this song? oh turns out he's trained in classical and flamenco guitar pilgrims--ok yah back to hip hop. not a fan again. tides--decent. the second half stretches long nadia--enjoyed this. immigrants-- i can't focus while listening to this i will have to come back later. look. my favorite parts are all the sanskrit and my least favorite parts are the english rapping. is it an interesting album? certainly. are there songs i enjoyed and wouldn't mind hearing again? certainly. would i probably listen to the whole album again... no.
This album starts off pretty strong, where it sounds like an Indian-tinted version of Nujabes, with some Portishead and Moby mixed in. The first half of the album is 4/5, but during the second half it drifts into songs that feel aimless Indian hymns (but perhaps it's just too far afield from music I'm used to).
I didn't dislike this as much as I thought I would from the first couple of tracks (there's definitey a variety of styles here), but for the most part I found this to be self-important, boring, and too long.
This album had a lot of interesting ideas but none of those ideas amounted to "songs that sound good and I want to listen to again." The Oppenheimer audio on the last track kinda hit, though.
Rarisimo el electro hinduismo, lo escucharía de nuevo, pero tiene muchas reminiscencias de portishead y massive attack, bandas que aún no logran conectar conmigo pese a la buena opinión general. 5/10
I really want to like those albums that are a little more 'out there'. This one is, with both a rare language and cultural background. But I really cannot like this album. There is just a bit too much weirdness. It seems like it really wants to send a certain message, but it doesn't come across to me. 1/5
Sérstakt
Aðeins of ethereal fyrir mig, en góðir sprettir inn á milli.
What did I just listen too? This is a strange album. Interesting, but I will not l8sten again.
Unremarkable
This is probably the worst album suggested so far. Nothing really stands out musically or lyrically.
I found this tricky to judge. There are parts of it where the atomic age fear of the concept and the melting pot of influences comes together really well. Indian percussion and vocals, drum & bass, acoustic guitar all blended well. However, other times it sounds like the reception music in a 4 star hotel with pretensions. 2.6 out of 5 in all reality
I, just no.
Meh. For every song that I enjoyed, there was another that sounded like a Disney soundtrack reject. Worth listening to, but not something I will revisit
It is the norm nowadays for streaming services to all have curated playlists to accompany us all on just about every conceivable daily event. I find the Chill, Relax, Focus or Sleep playlists particularly useful last thing at night when I turn the light to drift off to the land of nod. This album could be one of those playlists. For that reason I’m not altogether negative about it other than to say that if I had it on every night its repetitiveness would become very boring when I’m in the process of counting sheep. Or maybe that would be an advantage? Think the playlists do a better job. Goodnight Zzzzzzzz! 2/5 6/6/26
Great variety and cohesive at the same time.
Well, it was definitely different. But also strange and not my thing.
Boring as fuck...
First song was really good, second was good then it started to turn for me. After a few songs in I couldn't do it anymore. When rating albums I used to say "this sucks" but now I respect that although it's not MY favorite, that doesn't mean it can't be anyone's favorite. Now I say "it's nice, but it's not for me" This is nice, but it isn't for me. I'll give it a 2 because I did like a few tracks
I was unaware of this artist. But reading his Wikipedia page showed an enormously talented performer, composer, writer and thinker working across multiple genres and highly successful I'm all of them. The album arrives dripping with significance: a concept album about the Shadow of the Nuclear Bomb. And yet, for all that, it hits the ear sounding like a watered down Massive Attack, without an ounce of their richness and complexity. It promises big, but it's really a bit generic and dull.
This was actually quite good. I enjoyed it and would allow it to play again. 👍
No thanks. Almost a 1.
Overall kind of bland
It's the first time I have heard this group. I liked some fusione elements, expecially in "Nadia", but I'd preferred more experimentation and less english vocals. Instead, it goes too farn in the direction of commercial/(trip)pop.
Меланхоличный поп.
Not a bad soundtrack for some guided meditation or a trip to the day spa. But since I usually don’t do either of those things, I am going to round down from a 3.5.
Perhaps equal parts soothing and annoying, but the annoyance wins in this rating.
A mix of genres with a heavy Indian flair. Pretty good.
Buen trabajo algo monotono
3.5*
have never heard of this album before, did not know what to expect and was pleasantly surprised! i enjoyed the diversity of sounds, was captivated the whole time
Interesting concept, but I didn’t love it.
Pre Listen: Never heard of this fella. I read the Wikipedia article as I couldn't gleam anything at all from the guy's name or the album cover, sounds like an interesting concept album. I dislike the cover art though, so slightly lower expectations than usual going in to this one. Notable Tracks: Tides - My favorite song by a pretty large margin. I'm a sucker for piano jazz, and this song was both smooth and soothing as hell. Felt like I was in a Jacuzzi. Nostalgia - Least favorite song, but by a thin margin against "Pilgrim". Pilgrim just got annoyingly repetitive (yes I know what a mantra is), but Nostalgia's vocal work was horrible. I have a deep personal distaste for breathy, whispery vocalists, and this woman wouldn't cut that shit out. Beyond Skin - This sounds like it was taken straight out of Metal Gear Solid 4 or something. Nitin should play that series if he hasn't yet, I bet he'd enjoy it. Post Listen: This thing was somehow exactly what I expected and not what I expected at the same time. Should've been called something like "Beyond Genre" instead, because each song was kind of it's own thing, tied together by a somewhat shared theme? I liked the start of each song being something about nukes. I didn't understand half of the lyrics for obvious reasons, but I think I got their vibes. I honestly preferred the non-english songs, as every song with english vocals fell flat for me. As a more political album than anything I've seen on here yet, it was cool. The vocals were solid, the instrumentation was solid, everything about this album from a musical structure perspective was solid overall. I can appreciate it for what it is, it's just not my style? I won't be coming back to anything other than Tides, and I wouldn't say anything outside of that song is especially amazing. It's a bit more political art than music I feel, which is fine, but left me feeling sort of 3/5.
The mall Sephora-type beats. “Homelands” and a few others had some cool instrumentals (“Tides” and “Immigrant” were actually pretty good). WHAT THE FUCK WAS “The Conference”?!?!?! https://youtu.be/p69XxYjfx-k&t=5s
I'm fine with foo-fooey music. This tried to be many world genres at once it seems, which results in this beige/gray collage. It was fine to listen to but super forgettable. 2*
Organs, blood, veins.
Day873 - the late nineties, early two-thousands music really stunk across the whole planet
Pretty nice. Tina Grace's vocals are very beautiful
Probably my second favorite U2 album. It is hard because it is like picking your favorite child or favorite food. This album has so much spirituality, pain. love, angst. It really is a masterpiece. I remember this tour as well as I went to see U2 perform live probably 6 times on this tour. Makes my top 25 of all time.
Pick a genre, any genre. Now pick another one. And another.
Some good, some bad, but all in all, an album full of mid
4 stars✊ mochte den sound kinda
Very interesting.
Genre-bending banger of an album
Did not expect to like this album as much as I did. Peaceful and thoughtful listen. Exactly why I started the project because this is an album that I would not have found otherwise.
It was ok. Definitely different, but not something I have an overwhelming desire to revisit.
Almost the platonic ideal of a good work album - spacey, driving, varied enough to keep it interesting, repetitive enough that it fades back and focuses your attention. Trip Hop ambience, downtempo breakbeats, ecclectic world music melodic leads and instrumentation, some annoying RnB stuff.
Eksistensiell dread 10/10
Good
It was different. 2.
Personal enjoyment: 2/5 Relevance to this list: 4/5
definitely worth repeat listening. Lovely combination of trip hop beats with Indian culture.
Didn't care much for "Pilgrims", but otherwise I really enjoyed this. 4
I actually liked it. The Indian elements hardly bothered me, and in some places I even enjoyed them. The overall atmosphere of the album is quite cohesive, with a certain sense of concept. If they had trimmed the runtime and removed a few obvious fillers, it would be a perfectly fine album
This album, with its mixture of classical Indian and electronic instrumentation, reminds me a lot of “OK” by Talvin Singh which ALSO came out in 1999, I’ve just learnt. I absolutely loved “OK,” but somehow “Beyond Skin” passed me by. I don’t know if it’s fair to compare the two, but I can’t help it. I feel like this album maybe has broader influences, but that means some tracks stray from the overall sound and lose me a bit. Anyway, it’s very interesting and I’ll come back to it.
Interesting.
Back and forth between boring lo-fi and weird Indian breakcore hip hop kind of stuff. At best it was inoffensive but a lot of tracks were pretty annoying
Ambient triphop ontmoet de Indiase cultuur, en vervolgens neemt men er de tijd voor. Ik vind dit soort culturele overbruggingen meestal wel leuk, en deze keer is geen uitzondering. Geen idee wat ik heb zitten luisteren en waarom er atoomproeven bij genomen moeten worden, en het takketakketak in het nummer Conference zorgde bijna voor een punt aftrek, maar verder kan dit ermee door.
Ik dacht even verrast te worden met een eeuwwisseling-pop-zangeres die toch wel geinig klinkt. Tot het derde nummer de illusie genadeloos doorbreekt. Het album wordt een mix tussen Aziatische en Westerse klanken. Als de culturen echt samensmelten, zoals bij de Aziatische zang op drum&bass muziek (met een fijne diepe bassdrum) van Nadia werkt het eigenlijk best goed. Maar vaak is het meer een afwisseling, waardoor het album meer een geluids-wip-wap wordt.
Zoals bekend bevalt de gemiddelde triphop of breakbeatplaat onze band of sour brothers over het algemeen prima en scoort het gemiddeld erg hoog. Als je dan de eerste deuntjes hoort, dan val je wel gelijk in het warme triphop bad. Maar ga je het vergelijken met andere albums met vergelijkbare muziek in deze lijst, dan is het denk ik wel net wat minder. Het gaat alle kanten op: soms is het meer een 90s R&B-nummer, of soms een dancenummer zonder de dance (heeft er niemand een remix gemaakt van Immigrant? ). De wereldmuziek die er doorheen komt, kan interessant zijn, maar ik ben even een beetje klaar met die gemenebest-klanken als ik eerlijk ben. En dat is het sausje dat het speciaal moet maken, want verder zit er behalve het breakbeatje niet heel veel in. Of het moeten wat pogingen tot beatbox zijn. Kortom: de relaxte vibe in de lijn van het genre is fijn, maar over het geheel zitten er ook wat mindere kanten aan. Uiteindelijk vind ik het ietwat saai zelfs. Dus is dit niet een album dat ik ooit nog een keer op ga zetten ben ik bang en daar hoort een bepaald cijfer bij.
This was way better than I was expecting - cool, moody, atmospheric stuff; really enjoyed it.
Beyond Skin was an album that i had a really good time with. In a lot of ways, this album reminds me a fair bit of Talvin Singh's OK mainly because both albums are by British guys using styles from Asian music. I think i like this more due to it being more concise than that album which i felt dragged for longer than it should have. A lot of the songs had some pretty interesting ideas, some of which i never expected like Pilgrim which had some rapping in it and i thought it really worked. The vocals in a lot of the other songs were enjoyable too. There were a few songs which i didn't feel like they worked very well with their elements and some of them did drag but overall, it's a really good album. Best Song: Pilgrim Worst Song: Serpents
Awful
Stunning and unusual album with some diverse sounds
Previously unknown. I didn't dislike this as much as I expected to.
Muy cool! Buenas rolas. Mucha atmósfera, y rolas nice.
No
i am so shocked by the average rating for this. there were a couple of songs that i didn't love, but overall this is such an interesting, varied album. i really enjoyed the samples in Hindi, and the vocals were beautiful. if it was more my thing, it would be an easy 5. i think you people need to be a bit more open-minded.
Dull stuff to listen to and if find much of the singing style to be unlistenable. The more asian sounding tracks are quite mysterious sounding.
Bit boring, liked the first song but it got hard to commit to finishing it
Better than I thought it would be. Some of it odd and interesting, but glad I gave it a chance.
An electronic album with eastern music influences. Nothing too exciting
Not my thing, but starts off pretty. The nuclear weapon theme is made very clear in first and last songs. “Letting Go” is repetitive but in a soothing way. The mix of South Asian sound adds some variation. “Beyond Sound” drums jolted me. The Conference was odd sound to me but in a way I found enjoyable. In the end I liked it. Not something I’d put on a heavy rotation list.
Nunca pensei que eu ouviria trip hop indiano. Ja ouvi trip hop árabe, americano e britânico. Também já ouvi Roberto Carlos, que tá longe de ser a mesma coisa, mas pode ser que seja parecido.
Não é um álbum pra escutar no dia a dia. Mas, como conceito ele funciona muito né
a prova de que o pessoal desse site é um bando de elitista e idoso, baita álbum, meio longo tho.
= the Beatles Perfectly fine, if you're in the mood
You’ve heard of English guys doing a bad take on good Indian music, but what about an Indian guy doing a bad take on bad English music?
I liked this a lot - much more than I expected to.
No.
un album raro, pero bueno, me gusta todo el tipo de musica a la que uno no está acostumbrada,
Weird and really good in some places, boring in others. Definitely worth a listen and a bit of begrudging respect.
The 10% of this I like does not at all make up for the 90% that I can't stand at all. 2 stars or D-.
A little too over the place for me, but has its moments.
I thought this was a very interesting album. I know about as much about Indian pop music as I do theoretical physics, so I have no idea if this is considered good. I did rather enjoy this though.
2.0
I like the idea of this album, but it just doesn't sound all that great.
I connected less with this album the more that I listened to it. As it began the music drew me in. By the time it hit Serpents I was done.
Stylé La fameuse phrase d'Oppenheimer donne une touche cohérente à la fin de l'album, même si j'aurais bien fait sans les 4 musiques qui précèdent Beyond Skin L'album a une partie 4* et une partie 2* donc je vais faire entre les deux
chill
j'ai kiffé plein de sons, d'autres un peu moins, le style oriental mélangé à des rythmiques rap et tech ça fait un bon mélange
pas fan
Hyper intéressant car c'est très différent de ce qu'on a l'habitude d'entendre. Des sonorités qui font pas mal penser au dernier album de Gorillaz par moment. Juste je suis vraiment perplexe y'a des trucs que j'ai vraiment aimé et d'autres qui m'ont bien fait chier, parfois au sein même d'un morceau donc ça va en milieu de tableau.
Electronic music meticulously stripped of fun. It’s safe adult contemporary-electronica. Got an interesting theme though, and I enjoyed most of it, especially the jazzier tracks (I am a bore).
Crzay
A bit all over the place, but the beats, the sitars, the nuclear lyrics are all interesting
A prime example of the value of the exercise! I really enjoyed this and feel like its something that may well enter the rotation. How interesting!
Conceptually, this album gets big ups from me. Unfortunately, the execution fell a bit flat (a lot of it sounded like phone hold music??). The best part of this album is far and away Sawhney’s ability to meld genre and seamlessly incorporate distinctly Indian sounds throughout. Standouts for me were Homelands and Nadia, and the title track really was something. I’m glad to have listened to it but I won’t be coming back anytime soon.
I knew nothing about this and had never never of Nitin before, and made sure to not even look at the genre until it started playing. It was pretty cool! I loved the breakbeats throughout and the collage kind of aesthetics with all of the found sound audio extracts and some of that gorgeous piano (especially on Tides)
foxtel guide ass music as much as i do occasionally love this genre (lofi, d&b) and find it useful for flights and rainy days, my immediate gut reaction was that nothing from it could ever be deserving of any accolades, so might need to examine that but i probably won't to be fair! the only reason i tuned in today is cause i knew i could get through it in a work day (easy listening!)
This is great. It seamlessly melds Indian music with as many different genres as possible while sounding unmistakably British as well. The weird Disney music ballad was awful and almost ruined it for me but the rest is lots of fun.
Track "The conference" is the best track which displays Indian rhythms that will blow most Western influenced ears out of their expectations.
Not sure about this one. Not very exciting and nothing really stood out to me. Also the vague political messaging was pretty cheesy.
Different than what I’ve heard before but the first album so far that has really surprised me. I actually can see myself going back and listening to the whole thing. It was artsy in a good way and had variety in its tone. I didn’t understand a lot of it but maybe that’s okay.
Sounds like something that would be played in an overpriced clothes shop with annoying white lighting
This was a weird one. A soul-inspired record by a vocalist who sings different each song with random Indian production mixed in. Overall it does not work out.
Clippings from radio interviews is a cool touch, but not enough for me to enjoy the actual music. Fave track: Homelands
Bit of an odd mix of ideas. 2.5/5
not bad but genuinely can’t think about anything this album does than any of its contemporaries. feel like the production doesnt hold up to the conceptual and artistic aspects, especially with the Indian vocals. Very striking but it’s applied in a dull way.
Loved this one
Местами невообразимо сложно слушать, не находясь в подходящем настроении. Немного сбивают с толку арабские мотивы, но в целом, звук хороший, хоть и правда походит на стоковую музыку. Piligrim очень хорош.
Found this to be interesting throughout. It is such an out there record with the mix of fusion it delves into without disregarding its message. 8/10 [KEEP]
I was not previously familiar with the artist or album. This is pretty interesting. It's a sort of downtempo, electronica almost trip hop sort of sound, with Indian elements. There is good variety in tone and instrumentation of the tracks across the album. The sound of this album is unique across the 1001 albums list. I enjoyed this and would listen again.
Just not my style of music (heavily produced and mixed).
lol this was trash but people need to understand that this walked so Jai Paul could run.
Love the theme and variety of sounds while still coming all together nicely.
I appreciate that this feels earnest. It's a weird entry. It isn't bad but, like, what is it. Maybe I've got 1,001 more albums to listen to so I can understand things more. Or this is this just something that doesn't make sense if you aren't British and writing this list.
This was another of those ones that are clearly more important maybe to the British experience. This was fine, had some interesting bits, but not required listening and for that I'm out. 2.4
Hoping every trace of this album is wiped out in the nuclear winter.
Interesting fusion of genres but it was quite bland by a few tracks in. It's a very 90s sound that reminds me of the background music in Sliding Doors.
a sort of neo-r&B it chills out to into a pretty interesing vibey lil albumn, i'm a sucker for indian rhythms so i had fun with some of the more folk infused tracks
This was so bad! Even in the 90s this would have annoyed me. Incomprehensible how this ended up on this list. Mediocre at best.
I liked how varied it was.
It’s alright. When it has the elements of more traditional Indian music, it’s a decent listen. Then it shifts back to the most basic western electronica you’ve ever heard. That song about the village (Pilgrim I had to check) or whatever has to be one of the worst songs I’ve heard.
3⭐️/5 [04.08.2026] 05.19.2026
A couple interesting tracks, but I was pretty bored with most of it.
Nah
Very interesting album that bounces between r&b, traditional sounding hindi(?), and jazz. While I might not revisit, I’m not disappointed that I gave it a listen.
Interesting concept with outstanding execution.
Absolutely bizarre.
War ein Album was man sich anhören konnte,
'Immigrant' hat den Vibe gekillt. Ansonsten ganz ok anzuhören. Entspannte elektronische Beats.
Eigentlich ganz chillige Beats und eintauchen in verschiedene Genres, aber das indische Gedudel ist dann nicht mehr so mein Fall. Trotzdem 3*
I did not enjoy this album at all.
I liked this more back in the day, still good, but no longer in my wheelhouse.
Listened while cleaning the house. Thought I was getting just another late 90s British electronic album and was pleasantly surprised when this turned out to be a super compelling fusion album. Seamlessly blends music and styles from multiple different countries in a really powerful way. Really enjoyed this one.
Is the coverart a reference to The Bends or something? I dont know, music was chill but the message is hard to grasp without hindu knowledge, something about Nuclear Apocalypse that isnt fully conveyed, eh not something I would seek out, but nice to hear once in this list. 2/5
very chill, maybe drags on a little long.
Some good stuff, but overall not my thing.
Beyond shit.
I want to unironically fist-fight the creator of this list. I did not REDEEEEEEM this album.
sensational!
I really don't understand this one.
This is an interesting mix of western composition and traditional Indian ragas. It's much more than that too, and the instrumental performance suggests incredible talent. Vocals are quite beautiful as well. I also respect the themes being explored here. However, all that being said, I don't really respond to this overall. I just don't ever see myself returning to listen to this. It's not bad, just doesn't have anything within in that really inspires me to dig into it.
indian vibe
The best way to summarize my attitude towards this is album is: it's not you, it's me. Because the album is eclectic, there's a lot of experimenting and it really has something to say. But I just don't like it and that's on me.