Eleven Tigers's debut album last year is an early contender for album of the decade, so I was pretty excited about his sophomore effort. He set himself the challenge of creating an album in 111 days (hence the title), and it kinda feels like exactly that. There are lots of great ideas, but a complete lack of cohesion, sort of like Flying Lotus's Cosmogramma had the potential to be (but thankfully avoided). ET's debut flowed absolutely seemlessly through 15 tracks of dense beats and textures. 111 hops haphazzardly from one idea to the next and it all feels very rough around the edges, which is fine for lo-fi rock, but not in the world of intricate techno. Flashes of brilliance, but it could have been so much more...
7/10
For fans of: Burial, Aphex Twin, iTAL tEK
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