In the dichotomy of silly versus serious that has emerged recently inelectronic music, a few artists have managed to strike a happy medium.DAT Politics is no doubt one of the most talented of these. Adding adose of subtle, cartoonish humor to their laptop-based antics issomething at which the French quartet has become particularly adept.Their goofy, but never sloppy approach is best heard in tracks like"Re-Folk", "Allo! Pepperberg", and "Nitpickers". So it strikes me asodd that on their new album (on Chicks on Speed's label, no less), theband feels the need to recruit the assistance of Blechtum fromBlechdom, Kid 606 and Matmos. The (mostly vocal) "guest appearances"these artists make on 'Plugs Plus' only makes what is otherwise ahighly entertaining and polished record, seem overcrowded. No doubttheir contributions will likely please fans of Matmos and theTigerbeat6 camp, but DAT Politics were perfectly good without whatseems a gratuitous and unnecessary push into the spotlight.
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