Tyondai Braxton
Central Market
Release Date: Sep 15, 2009
Genre(s): Rock, Experimental
Record label: Warp
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Album Review: Central Market by Tyondai Braxton
Great, Based on 5 Critics
Based on rating 8.0/10
Tyondai Braxton has been making music, patiently and maybe a bit pensively, in New York for most of the past decade, both in the ecstatic prog-rock band Battles and as an occasional loop-mining solo artist who can summon the sound of several bands over. None of his music has been small, and none of it has lacked for promise. But none of it even began to foretell the scale and sweep of Central Market.
Based on rating 4/5
Bloke from Battles goes further out on a limb shocker: more Stravinsky than the Saturdays, this is still way more fun than the latter..
Based on rating 8/10
At the time of Central Market's release, Tyondai Braxton was best known as a member of proggy post-rockers Battles, who earned so much acclaim for their 2007 debut album Mirrored that many of their fans might not have known of Braxton's decade-plus of work as an avant-garde solo artist. That's understandable, since his debut solo album History That Has No Effect was released in 2002, but Central Market reintroduces Braxton as an artist with an audacious set of compositions that link to his earlier solo work and Battles, but don't rehash either. On History That Has No Effect, Braxton was truly solo, crafting heavily processed, loop-based pieces that mimicked a larger ensemble through meticulous layering.
Based on rating 7/10
It is the historical mission of rock and roll to destabilise families. 'We Are Family' was a rallying call to those estranged by heteronormative parents, the likes of The Broken Family Band revived a vision of peripatetic familial musical artistry, The Danielson Famille dramatised carnivalesque manichean borders in the dark hinterlands of the North American family. Pop music at its best is an arena where alternative plans and configurations are performed, and the authority of what precedes us is tested.
Opinion: Excellent
NELLY FURTADO “Mi Plan” (Universal Latino) Has pop started some unannounced cultural exchange program? Shakira’s next album, “She Wolf,” features English lyrics, electronic club beats and Auto-Tune robotics. By mysterious coincidence — or perhaps to maintain some cosmic pop equilibrium — the Portuguese-Canadian songwriter Nelly Furtado has decided to put out an album of supremely catchy, hemisphere-hopping Spanish-language pop, “Mi Plan. ” It’s Ms.
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