lower east side, chinatown
an existentialist and a nerd
his favorite themes—alienation, distrust, technology—mark him as an existentialist and a nerd; he says he took his album title from a guidebook, "the hundredth window: protecting your privacy and security in the age of the internet," and at a time when pop music is increasingly made by computer whizzes on laptops, let us hope a trend is not afoot—will we see a spate of theme albums inspired by p.d.a. owner's manuals and the perils of downloading adobe acrobat? in any case, mr. del naja makes something of the connections between microsoft windows and the double-glazed kind; his songs brood in staccato phrases about human isolation in a world of inhuman surveillance.
- jody rosen, "bleak, like bristol, but beautiful," the new york times 16 march 2003
posted March 16, 2003 in music, print