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CD. The sugary Music for Imaginary Films should have been packaged with a toothbrush and a pack of dental floss. French pop spy themes sub-Basement Jaxx/Faze Action nu disco horn-filled instrumentals neo-Timbaland production Old Navy house nods to Bernard Herrmann and Bollywood -- everything but ambient seems to be tackled by Arling and Cameron on their appropriately titled second disc. It comes off a little too sweet much like running through an ice cream shop and sampling all the flavors rather than eating a proper dinner. It might give you a bit of a bellyache. You can t deny the fun in it but goofy songs like Hashi -- about a drug sniffing canine -- won t demand repeated listens. The lighter-than-a-feather W.E.E.K.E.N.D. sounds like one of those station IDs with a melody that irritates for days; odds are you d rather hear Manic Monday. Nonetheless it sounds like A&C accomplished what they set out to do. For all the styles it mimics it might not come near to challenging any of the predecessors but they likely weren t setting out to do that. It s just mindless fun so none if its downfalls should affect your ability to enjoy it. If you want more stick-to-your-ribs cinematic genre-hopping you re better off with the grittier Barry Adamson. True Music s peppy juvenescence is more ideal for preschool tumbling exercises or pouncing on a pile of leaves than anything else but who s to say that s a bad thing? ~ Andy Kellman Rovi
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