Nicolas Jaar's deep, spacey music is ripe for remix and reinterpretation, right? This EP sure suggests otherwise. None of these remixes managed to show its original in an exciting new light. Instead of finding the grooves and the hooks lurking with Nicolas Jaar's soundscapes and bringing them to the fore, these four remixes opt instead to bury them under even more layers of greyscale ambience. The result is four lifeless and listless songs, wallowing in a soup of pointless minutiae, with very little sense of urgency or momentum to them whatsoever. Oh, and three of the four remixes are based upon the same song. Even people who like the way these songs have been reinterpreted will struggle to listen to this EP from start to finish.
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