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The UK’s Max Tundra (aka Ben Jacobs) has made electronic music ever since bringing home an old Commodore Amiga 500 as a teenager. On his third album, experimental electro sounds that initially seem grating and disparate weave together to form bona fide pop melodies. Orphaned, for example, sounds like five songs playing at once, yet Jacobs is able to craft a mean connective hook from the sonic soup.
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On My Night Out, he explores more traditional jazz sounds with less success, and he complicates the super-catchy guitar hook in Will Get Fooled Again with cheesy Net-generation lyrics about MySpace, Google Image Search and eBay.
Top track: The Entertainment
Max Tundra chills at the Mod Club with Junior Boys on Saturday and Sunday (March 28 and 29).
