by Stewart MasonThe third album by the Poster Children's electronic alter egos Salaryman, The Electric Forest comes nearly a full decade after the side project's debut, and over six years after its follow-up. Overall, however, it sounds like it could have been recorded during the same sessions. Salaryman's raison d'être is a slightly skewed, tongue-partway-in-cheek take on Tortoise-style post-rock. Taken either as parody or in earnest, the result is the same: choppy rhythms in off-kilter time signatures, electronic keyboards pulsing underneath distorted heavy guitar riffs, and distorted found-sound voices occasionally drifting through the middle distance. The only thing lacking is a particularly interesting musical and/or philosophical viewpoint, or at least some memorable tunes. As it is, The Electric Forest sounds like the Poster Children came across a cache of unfinished Salaryman tracks and decided to polish them up and send them out. Har...