I might as well come right out and say it: Bonobo’s Black Sands will survive the test of time. Listening to it now, just two years after it’s release, it’s already clear what a milestone the album is for Simon Green and for electronic music as a whole. With Black Sands, Simon has unequivocally ended debate between the merits of electronic music vs. that of acoustic music; finally, we can rest easy in the knowledge that there is only music, and the genius who creates it.

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