Nicolas Jaar: Space Is Only Noise - review

(Circus Company)Être, the opening track on 20-year-old Nicolas Jaar's debut album, is an alluring mix of disparate elements. From the sound of water lapping on a shore, it moves through extended quotes in French before warm organ chords play out over twitching electronics. It's ridiculously, wonderfully pretentious, and is endemic of an album that's hard to describe (Jaar himself calls his music "blue-wave"). This is a dance album you can't dance to, an album of 14 tracks that works better as a...

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