After the quirky and groovy SOUND MUSEUM, Towa Tei has apparently gone off track with LAST CENTURY MODERN. It's 9 ho-hum songs that quietly fade into each other without ever standing out from anything before. "A Ring" is an okay track, but it doesn't redeem the rest of the disc, which is something like muzak for the electronica age.SOUND MUSEUM and FUTURE LISTENING are good albums that, through their experimentalism and use of foreign influences, did a lot to set the stage for the entrance of Brazilian themes into modern electronica. LAST CENTURY MODERN, however, will sadly be the last thing in my collection that I would want to listen to.