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Great Tunes - NASTY Copy Protection!

W. R. Jones | New Port Richey, FL United States | 03/16/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I love the CD, great music... better than the Otherness.

BUT, the CD has some very nasty, intrusive copy protection that causes 2 of 3 players I own not to play the disc correctly - The "Copy Control" website warns some car CD players may have trouble playing the disc, in my case it's the only player that will play the disc correctly. Also, if you attempt to listen on your PC the disc requires you to update your operating system! I couldn't get the disc out of my computer fast enough... No Way some company is updating my system files to play a CD.

I believe Sony had some issues with similar copy protection technology and ended up pulling the discs."

A really bad trip...

svf | 12/21/2006

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Whatever they're calling themselves these days, Future Sound of London, a.k.a. Amorphous Androgynous, continue their regrettable and mind-boggling descent into laughable neo-psychedelia. Their previous misadventures into this territory, The Isness and The Otherness (get it?), at least benefited from Max Richter's luxurious production, but Alice In Ultraland expands upon the worst elements of those albums -- jangling guitars, noisy sound effects, awful vocals -- to create a really bad trip. I don't know what FSOL is smoking, but I sure hope they stop soon...

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Amorphous - in a bad way...

Anik | Vancouver | 07/08/2006

(1 out of 5 stars)

"I've tried to understand the positive reviews for this album - I've listened to it a number of times now, but I give up. I've been a fan of Cobain and Dougan's Future Sound Of London for ages - but this album is just plain brutally bad. Their ersatz psychedelia involves taking a musical cliché and piling on swirling layers of stuff, ad infinitum, with no respite - salted now and then with awkward lyrics delivered with a suprisingly amateurish bent... Is it a parody? As a joke, even then it might be interesting if it weren't also so terribly recorded - it sounds harsh and muddled. The last few tracks are an improvement, musically and sonically, but it doesn't make up for the hackneyed and derivative stuff that preceded."