So how long could you listen to the solo on Luomo's "The Present Lover"?

it makes me very, very happy to be alive.

I've been listening to "Vocalcity" for 2 years and expect the next album will be even better. Even if it cannot be better ("Vocalcity" is in my Top 3 on My Best Album Ever list). But "Present Lover" is so amazing, the solo is completely unexpexted and so...just in time. Perfect. If the music is to evoke our dreamworlds, Luomo is the only guy who can create the space I want to live in. His music is so...Mediterreanean -harmonious, sensual, vital. It's hard to believe he's from Finland.

(Oops, I didn't spot this thread and posted to an older one earlier. Sorry.)

So why has this thread died? You lot aren't actually trying to answer the question, are you?

As I've said elsewhere, I think "The Perfect Lover" is Luomo's unbeatable justification for ironing out the IDM/dub creases in his work - everything about it is so glitteringly perfect, every single riff and bass noise and cut-up vocal aspiring to be a more industrious vehicle for delivering pleasure. Although it's a meloncholy sort of pleasure: the second half's trail of interconnected riffs in particular is one of the most heartbreaking things I've this year.

And the guitar solo is brilliant.