Process is evident and there is a sense of energy from improvisation and risk-taking in the unlaboured making and surface treatment. |
And yet, extraordinarily, the album's feel is as fresh and unlaboured as the earlier masterpiece. |
Gone are the impenetrable layers of sound and beats, in comes a commerciality which is both unlaboured and fresh. |
But exemplar of this unlaboured quality was the buoyantly nimble Chorus whose meticulously managed phrasing, timbre and dynamics always felt spontaneously alive. |