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14 May 2004
Various Artists, Lovers Lounge (Intentcity)
The gaudy cover art to Lovers Lounge, with its scantily-clad female torso, ancient pillars and red satin, suggests an update of the "exotica" music of Martin Denny and Les Baxter. But the fun-loving, tongue-in-cheek aspect of those 1950s and '60s recordings is sorely missing from the mostly colorless electronic mood music featured here. If you can get over liner notes like, "The pulsing beats…quicken the tantric breath and beating heart of embracing lovers as they dance to the upbeat tempo through an ocean of ecstasy," there are several tracks that do an above-average job of establishing a chill-out vibe. Former The The and Daniel Ash collaborator Natacha Atlas lends a bit of credibility by singing on one cut, but for the most part Lovers Lounge is everything that gives "New Age" a bad name.
— John Bergstrom
.: posted by Editor 7:18 AM
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