Dosh - Wolves and Wishes

WAZZAAAAAAAAAP?!?!

Quite a parallel can be drawn between Martin Dosh's The Lost Take and the tv show Martin starring Martin Lawrence.

While watching any episode of Martin, you ALWAYS knew what you were going to get. Seriously, try and remember the plot line of a Martin episode....still thinking....got nothing, right? Plot didn't essentially matter since you knew Martin was going to throw the same jokes and catch phrases at you every single episode.

And it was always funny for some reason!



With The Lost Take, Minnesota's favorite drum 'n loop virtuoso created a beautiful album that flowed seemlessly from one song to another. He never really strayed away from his winning formula--with one awesome song sounding very similar to the next-- and I didn't give a shit! In the iPod age where albums as a collective piece of art have become increasingly insignificant, Marty D made an album that I almost always have to listen to the whole way through.

Daaaaaaaaaaaaamn Gina! I mean, Dosh!

You just haaad to go try to push you music to grander new heights. While I applaud the effort, I just can't groove to Wolves and Wishes like I do to The Lost Take. While there are moments that make me think Martin Dosh is successfully pushing his music in a more sublime direction ("Don't wait for the needle to drop", "Kit and Pearle", "Keep up appearance"), there are too many moments on this record that feel cluttered and eventually get mentally disregarded as filler ("Bury the ghost", "First Impossible", "The magic stick").

I still think Dosh is brilliant; but I think this album could have used some fleshing out at points. And needless to say, Wolves and Wishes severely lacked it some Sheneneh.

OH MY GOOOOOOOOODNESS!