Corrosion

Okay, here’s the thing. I listen to Anodyne and feel like I’m missing something. It’s panoramic electronic music and it’s very efficiently done – the beats go “tic, tic, tic, tic, tic”, there are big blocky sustained sounds and melodic/amolodic bleepy staccato sounds and ominous brooding swishy noises and glitchy processed drum-substitutes. It’s all very workmanlike and if it was a house I’d be confident that it wouldn’t fall down. But I’ve heard most of these textures before and I’ve heard most of these (or something like these) arrangements before too, and I find myself listening to it analytically, unwrapping and unpacking each track to see what’s inside. And I can’t find anything. Am I missing something?