Demob Happy

Homelife - Exotic Interlude
7/10
FIRST PUBLISHED AT THE LINE OF BEST FIT
The last time Homelife surfaced on my radar was with the 2002 Ninja Tune release ‘Flying Wonders‘, a whimsical and varied hotch-potch of exotic styles that was more than much of the hipster muzak coming out of the label at the time. Whereas then the core [...]

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Fairweather view
7/10
A slightly tongue-in-cheek bohemia runs through this wigged-out collective’s latest LP. There is a lot of shoddy material released through Ninja Tune but this can certainly be placed in the context of the more interesting artists on their roster (see Amon Tobin and Bonobo also). Live instrumentation is pitted playfully against the label’s [...]

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