{"id":559,"date":"2015-07-15T01:19:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T01:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peterbanks.net\/archive\/?page_id=559"},"modified":"2015-07-15T01:20:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T01:20:36","slug":"reduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.peterbanks.net\/archive\/discography\/reduction\/","title":{"rendered":"REDUCTION"},"content":{"rendered":"

Released November 29, 1999.
\nCastle Music America 542 [USA]
\nHTD Records 76 [UK]
\n\"reductionps\"<\/a>
\nTRACKS
\n1. Diminuendo in Bloom 1:38
\n2. Tone Down 6:56
\n3. The Age of Distortion 4:28
\n4. Fade to Blue 2:48
\n5. Fathat 3:48
\n6. As Night Falls\u2026 2:32
\n7. Consolation in Isolation 4:24
\n8. Dirty Little Secret 3:59
\n9. As Ever 2:08
\n10. Pirate\u2019s Pleasure 4:20
\n11. Rosa Nova 9:11<\/p>\n

All songs written by Peter Banks.<\/p>\n

REVIEWS<\/h3>\n

by All Music<\/em>
\nIf you\u2019re expecting to hear a reproduction of Instinct on Reduction, you\u2019ll have to settle instead for less. Peter Banks falls prey to the allure of gizmos, drowning out his own guitar work with drumbox beats and synthetic basslines. If the spoken snippets suggest Robert Fripp circa Exposure, the guitar distortion and aimless arrangements point squarely to Adrian Belew\u2019s Desire Caught By the Tail (and you don\u2019t want to be pointing at that). Like Belew\u2019s failed first instrumental album, Reduction finds the guitarist sleepwalking through various settings, some languorous and others lively, trotting out the same by-now familiar sounds once too often. Banks doesn\u2019t need to look beyond his guitar for inspiration; when he unplugs the drumbox for \u201cFade to Blue\u201d and \u201cConsolation in Isolation,\u201d listeners are able to cut through the distractions and get to the core of Banks\u2019 appeal. More than one good guitarist has been mesmerized by mechanical add-ons, as if audiences expect the guitarist to carry the weight of an entire album. And yet it\u2019s fair to assume that most people who bought Reduction were hoping to hear Banks play his guitar, not diddle around with drum machines and club beats. Maybe one or two examples of aggressive rock would have been interesting for a change of pace (\u201cDirty Little Secret\u201d does it very well), but Peter Banks would do better to stick to quieter, self-standing compositions. Songwriting has never been his strength \u2014 technique has. Better to put the toys away and let his original talents rise to the surface.
\nSource: http:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/cg\/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3xfixqrkld0e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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