Break out the coloring books, find that old beanie, and lose most of your rational self. Why? Because I bring you Dim Dim. Belgian Jerry Dimmer has always had his hand dipped deep into his inner child. Once a professional cartoonist, a writer of video game music and illustrator of children’s books, it all shows, and it seems that those cartoons and the what-not have rooted themselves in his music. Spacey pieces with melodic guitars, broken waltzes, video game bleeps-n-bloops and everything else that kids oh so love - inluding me.

Kiwi, Audio Dregs (2002), is a manic trip indeed, but occasionally he will take you back down to earth, although no lower than the skyline. This album is more realized than his past three endeavours - while the contrustion of the music has matured, the content has not - thankfully. I guess the best way to describe this album is to find that point between ‘Super Mario Bros’ and a Hawaiian luau and settle yourself down with the fruitiest of cocktails possible - proper.

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