For three hours you'll be happy with the album Music For Animals, by German neoclassical pianist Nils Frahm. But for beautiful piano sounds, you haven't come to the right place this time. Frahm swaps his piano here for electronic music, which comes mainly from synthesizers. With such a long playing time and an average duration of about 20 minutes per track, it is questionable whether you can keep
… it up as a listener. Indeed, Frahm's compositions creep forward slowly, with glassy background noises and subtle changes. Frahm's electronic work is often characterized by a somewhat colder feel than the music in which his piano playing takes center stage. The songs on Music For Animals are at times beautiful and possibly put you in a meditative state. On the other hand, the album lasts too long, as demanding your full attention for three hours on this kind of minimal composition is also a bit too much of a good thing somewhere. (YvQ)more
