This is part of Six Degrees' Travel Series.
Judge by the new-age travelogue cover of the digipak, and you can be forgiven for dismissing Toby Marks' latest long-player on first glance. However, those two, scuba fin-adorned feet in close proximity to the Kubrick obelisk perfectly capture the contradictory essence that is at the core of Marks' batch of magical new sounds. Still effortlessly combining a multitude of styles and genres in a Macaronic wall of sound, Marks further broadens the Banco de Gaia palette to sow progressive modes between the thick dance grooves.
"I Love Baby Cheesy" is a strident and delightful pastiche of oddball vocal samples, crashing waves of synthetic noise, African lutes, and charging electronics-rituals for the rave. Then there's the very un-Banco "144K?," brimming with computerized specters, backward loops that sound like the devil whistling, and vagabond strings set amid a lumbering beast of a beat. It all adds up to Banco de Gaia's coolest shade of pale yet.
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