Compared to Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman’s take on exotica is very in-your-face. He’s very heavy-handed with the “natural” sounds of waves crashing, “jungle sounds” of ooh-ooh-ah-ahing spider monkeys and marmosets and bird sounds and all that.The arrangements are great though. Very Hawaiian feel and it’s great to just throw on and chill to in a sitting-in-a-plastic-lawn-chair-on-a-patch-of astro-turf-next-to-a-charcoal-grill sort of way.