28 is an album of delicate electronic pop with glitches. Takamasa and Norikos songs are mostly slow, gentle, and have melodies and multi-layered female vocals from Noriko. Its difficult to point to differences between these tracks, since they are matters of degree, rather than totally different genres. All of the songs include the elements listed above, plus a lot of reverb and delay, in different patterns. "Fly-Variation and "Nolicom are probably the best example of this style. "Vinyl Words and "When the Night Comes would be the stronger vocal tracks, with the former having atonal vocals and the latter being a little more hummable. Most of it could be filed with Lali Punas quieter moments. So, if you have a taste for more abstract, bleep-y pop, this worth a try.
(Fat Cat)Aoki Takamasa and Tujiko Noriko
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BY Philip DowneyPublished Mar 1, 2006