The debut artist album from Crosstown Rebels founder Damian Lazaurus is nothing, if not unexpected. Eschewing the conventional patterns of a dance oriented alum, the London born producer, now based in LA, offers an eclectic debut that takes in cinematic vignettes and skewed electronic folk whilst remaining true to his role as a purveyor of dancing music, though there is little you would dance to on ‘Smoke the Monster Out’. Whilst recent mix compilations show that Lazarus’ tastes are impeccable, SMTO suffers from a lack of overall direction. Surprisingly it is the ballad, folk influenced tracks, and inspired cover in the shape of Scott Walkers “It’s Raining Today" where things become particularly interesting. In fact if you removed the weakest links like "Memory Box" , you could convince me this was a new direction for Belle and Sebastian . Well, Maybe.
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