Glimpses and Return of the Gringo! album reviews

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5th March, 2012

Review

Having picked up the plaudits for his debut album, Pins and Digits, and with solid support from the likes of Gilles Peterson and many others, ace Kiwi drummer and programmer supremo Julien Dyne expands and refines the brief for its successor, GLIMPSES (BBE). The vocal contributions from She’s So Rad, Ladi6 and Parks, Dear Times Waste and Mara TK help lift the 19-track project above the usual J Dilla/Flying Lotus influence axis, although the preponderance of bite-sized tracks hides, rather than highlights, the unmistakable fact that Dyne has musical and arrangement skills ...

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