[Translated via Google. Read the original <a title="Der Krenten Uit De Pop" href="http://dekrentenuitdepop.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/todd-tobias-tristes-tropiques.html" target="_blank">here</a>.]

"<span class="notranslate">It is just half a year ago, Todd Tobias first solo record here fell to the mat.</span> <span class="notranslate"> The musician I at that time is mainly known as a producer of quite a few plates of lo-fi pioneers Guided By Voices and solo albums by Guided By Voices frontman Robert Pollard, made after a long period of habituation impressed with the totally elusive Impossible Cities.</span>

<span class="notranslate"> With Impossible Cities Todd Tobias took emphatic goodbye to the lo-fi;</span> <span class="notranslate"> the genre which he was strongly considering his past associated.</span> <span class="notranslate"> Impossible Cities was full of hypnotic soundscapes full of surprises, where you could come up with the images themselves.</span>

<span class="notranslate"> I propose immediately that it took some time before I could make chocolate from the special music of Todd Tobias, but ultimately Impossible Cities was the perfect soundtrack for many dreamy moments.</span>

<span class="notranslate"> Todd Tobias has now perhaps renounced the lo-fi, but the almost unreal productivity that sticks to the genre, the American musician is not lost yet.</span> <span class="notranslate"> In Tristes Tropiques Todd Tobias Indeed supplies already on a new album and it is one that manages to surpass its predecessor in terms of beauty.</span>

<span class="notranslate"> Tristes Tropiques is based on the book by the French ethnographer and anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss.</span> <span class="notranslate"> That will be the average reader of my BLOG probably not say much, but during my studies was one of the important books and also one of my favorite books.</span> <span class="notranslate"> Moreover, it is a book that reads like a novel, and it is also a book that asked exactly 60 years ago, highlighting the way in which Indian tribes the pinch in the Amazon region by advancing industrialization and urbanization;</span> <span class="notranslate"> still a topical issue.</span>

<span class="notranslate"> Todd Tobias has now provided the masterpiece of Claude Lévi-Strauss music and the music is full of magic.</span> <span class="notranslate"> Tristes Tropiques is more accessible and less eclectic than Impossible Cities, but equally dreamy and mysterious.</span>

<span class="notranslate"> Let the beautiful sounds of Todd Tobias coming from the speakers and you get complete rest.</span> <span class="notranslate"> Our hectic society is suddenly far away and there is plenty of time for daydreaming.</span> <span class="notranslate"> Given the background of the plate dream myself about the fascinating exploration of Claude Lévi-Strauss in the tropics, but like Impossible Cities, you can invent this time the images in the languid and dreamy sounds of Todd Tobias.</span>

<span class="notranslate"> Of course Tristes Tropiques no record that will be embraced at all widespread, but more than Impossible Cities is a record that deserves attention and above all time.</span> <span class="notranslate"> Superficial listening atmospheric sounds in Tristes Tropiques will likely evaporate quickly, but dive deep into this album and you can hear sounds of an almost unreal beauty.</span>

<span class="notranslate"> Impossible Cities I finally found mainly a special plate.</span> <span class="notranslate"> Tristes Tropiques is even more special and another stunning.</span> <span class="notranslate"> Now two palm trees and a hammock between them to get lost even longer and more intense in this unique album. <i>Erwin Zijleman</i></span>"

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