Broadly speaking I suppose this is a kind of sample-based hip-hop, but more in the vein of the Avalanches, say, than even DJ Shadow, never mind more traditionally or obviously 'hip-hop' outfits. It has a bowerbird electicism which often seems to go with the sampling aesthetic (maybe especially in Australia - or, at least, a lot of this kind of stuff that I've been exposed to has come from here), resulting in a record that's all over the shop stylistically (quite deliberately, I suspect).
I do like the album's style - it has a pleasing fluidity and something which, while to my ears is short of the natural musicality which infuses the very best musical mixing exercises (eg, the collaborations extracted and collected on the Heartland: An Appalachian Anthology cd and the source records for that disc), holds the sometimes disparate elements both within and across songs together. Worthy of note is a fantastic three song run from tracks three through five - "Bar Chutzpah" (high energy big beat clarinet workout), "Bally Broad" (trip-hop type thing with a bit of a laid-back soul-jazz thing happening honey-sleepy female vocals tripping through long vocal lines over laid-back beats and instrumentation) and "Hiroshi Waltz" (a sinuous little creature in waltz tempo, instrumental lines and sampled retro-kitsch-emotive vocals entwining around each other).
