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CD Review : the book about my idle plot on a vague (06/09/27) : reviewed by michael

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"And that's how the world began. And that's how the world will end." Old school supremacy from Modest Mouse, achieved both musically and lyrically that wholly duplicates in the latter for Tokyo's underground instrumental quartet toe and their 'The Book About My Idle Plot On A Vague Anxiety.' Far from vague in their collective dexterity in poising themselves for imminent international exposure, Takaaki Mino (guitar), Satoshi Yamane (bass), Hirokazu Yamazaki (guitar) and Takashi Kashikura (drums) coalesce a most refreshing jazz-based perfection to both honor and enamor both past and present in all regards for this act that the legendary John Peel would've surely embraced as he had Melt-Banana.

"______ (View Of Treason)" loops in its Yamane's bass, cascading keys as the perfect apertif to the 10 sonic cocktails to imbibe thereafter. Streaming straight into "_____ (Innovation Alone)," Taaki's and Yamazaki's chiming pickings reverberate off one another as Kashikura's fills and timing sync in a crossing style that'd please Moon or Rich as Yamane's bass work, solid and subtle like Entwistle coats and soothes. With your mind and body warming, "Tremolo + Delay" spins and hypnotizes in layers that intoxicate effortlessly into "________ (I Dream Across The River)" that feeds you into your own wonderland of possibilities to help transfer the knowledge read from their efforts, allowing a green light to be seen in the rumbling, yet perfectly ordered "All I Understand Is That I Don't Understand." "C" instantly gives you balanced vitamins as your slide into the mesmerizing "Past And Language" takes you away on countless levels. "Music For You" is a repeater that recognizes the routines we face whereas "I Do Still Wrong" counters in its spontaneous, racing vigor to breakout and achieve. "______ (Metronome)" keeps time as would be thought amidst layers of realities that lead into the stop-start finale "Everything Means Nothing," leaving the door wide open for these four overseas cousins of Isaac.

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