Review of The Broken Record from The Montreal Mirror by Rupert Bottenberg

Boston illustrator/toy piano virtuoso Mike Langlie clearly harbours an intense and utterly irony-free passion for kid's stuff, already having released two albums of eerily innocent and gleeful music cobbled together with children's musical playthings. His latest takes a new tack, mixing and mashing macro-samples from his vast stacks of vintage children's records. If you can hack the unbearable cuteness of it all, you're rewarded with an exceptionally intricate, energetic and even funky exercise in sonic cut 'n' paste — the kindergarten version of Coldcut, 2manydjs or, tellingly, Seeland label-mates Negativland.