Robert Miles: Thirteen – review

(Salt)Robert Miles hit big in the 90s with Children, a showcase for the gentle, piano-driven strain of dance music he called "dream house". Since then he's explored jazz, Indian music and now prog rock. The mad experimentation and fantastic world-building of prog? Not really, but Thirteen does have an awful lot of guitar solos, galumphing through the pretty electronic backgrounds Miles builds up. They help disguise how his ear for a hook has atrophied – the simple, immediate melodies of his ...

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