Sukia - Contacto Espacial con el Tercer Sexo (CD)

All Music Guide

An ominous, free-floating collage of found sounds, drum machines, cheap keyboards, and samples, Sukia's debut album Contacto Espacial con el Tercer Sexo flirts with exotica and the avant-garde without committing to either. And it's the better for it. Sukia's instrumentals are alternatingly mesmerizing and disturbing, fueled by pseudo-bossa nova rhythms, jazzy chords, and sheets of noise. It's not necessarily an alienating record, but anyone well versed in the cut-paste productions of the Dust Brothers, who also helmed this record, will be more inclined toward meeting the album halfway, since the music isn't strictly lounge revival, avant-pop, or electronic music. It's a fascinating, darkly humorous melange of all three, and it's endlessly fascinating.

- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide