It was somewhat comforting to note that this remix album was encouraged by the acclaimed heaped on the original The Entire City album by large chunks of the media last year.

For the uninitiated, Gazelle Twin is the pseudonym of Elizabeth Walling – a Brighton-based electronic music artist – with The Entire City being her debut. Her approach is ambient/ethereal by nature with a haunting, avant-garde pop approach, drawn from a repertoire of choral and more other-worldly influences.

This is immediately apparent on the track Changelings, remixed by John Foxx and The Maths, while a dreamy, worldbeat influence (Delerium springs to mind) is more than evident on the following Men Like Gods (Maya Postepski Remix) – with low slung beats and cavernous echoes laying a platform for Walling’s estranged, unwinding vocal. This is certainly one of the best tracks on the album.

Walling’s alienated vocal also tends to appear and disappear from the music in a rather wraith-like fashion, somewhat confusing the listener as to what to focus on – as evidenced on I Am Shell I Am Bone (Scanner Remix), or perhaps the track is simply a bad interpretation of the original.

My overwhelming feeling on The Entire City is that the results are underwhelming. There is a strong focus on atmosphere, which is all well and good, but the percussive element of the music and percolating melodies rarely stand out to provide anything wholly memorable. During numerous plays, one perpetually awakens as if from a disinteresting dream.

A few tracks do stand out, however, such as the strongly melodic Men Like Gods (Zebra and Snake Remix), but the Ghost Eyes remix of the same track – despite featuring a pleasingly strong percussive motion - bares little, if any resemblance, forcing you to wonder how much of the source material has been ripped apart to showcase the talents of the remixers rather than the remixed.

Meanwhile, a few efforts are drearily dull, such as The Entire City (Alteria Percepsyne Remix), which goes nowhere for its 7.50 minute entirety and the dank, limp and muddily produced View of a Mountain (Soccer96 Remix), which surely cannot have done anything to add to the original (any electronic band that sounds like it was named after a football tournament can only make you fear the worst).

Although Walling’s vocal gives a strong indicator of what Gazelle Twin is all about, and the album features a sometimes unnerving blend of cinematic soundscapes and electronic pop, one gets the impression that much of The Entire City has been dulled down and/or lost in translation. So if you’re interested in the acclaim so-far gifted to the artist, you know where to go first – to source, not here.