Mantasy

Michael Mayer's second album, Mantasy, is "a tribute to history's great explorers, to characters obsessed with an idea, to totally wrong conceptions of the world." It's a bold concept that Mayer attempts to embody by filtering an eccentric sprawl of ideas through a diverse array of instrumentation and electronic-music stylings. Occasionally, things are knitted together to strike gold, as they are on playful dancefloor lament "Good Times." However, more often than not, the tracks b...

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