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Quinoa's soulfully serpentining vocals writhe all over the Floor of Soul which is supported by a smoldering lounge/jazz sound replete with rich stand-up bass runs, adroit piano-bar stylings, echoing electronics and infective rhythms.
Floor of Soul Dub reprises its predecessor, with additional playful experimentations in the electronics department. Tasty Candy Bones mines a similar vein, with seductive utterances which are more sweet sounds than words. Sprightly keyboard effects rollick over a subdued-though-groovy tempo.
E-beats bubble up beneath Sweet Bing Cherries as Smith winds wavering synth, piano sounds and unusual eruptions around Quinoa's softly spiraling wails.
A determined funkiness empowers It's Your Time as sultry singing is punctuated with dub rhythms and restrained synth riffage. It's Your Dub (2:59) drenches the previous track in extra doses of reverb and other studio effects of dub tradition.
Underwater-y organ, acutely rippling vocals and lightly jazzy drumming spread across the surface of Tierra Madre. Gritty e-percussion, horn and vocal drones, layered samples, plus plenty of digital distortions make First and Last an aurally entrancing, if not slightly chaotic, listen. Marnie's soundtrip ends in August (7:21), where everything remains cool; jazzily thrumming bass, clangorous metal drums, piano tones, wafting voice and a resonant harmonica are accented with additional beats of both electronic and ethnic stylings and odd blips, grunties, string swells and power surges.
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