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DFA
Atfull album length, Murphy's Mark E. Smith vocal affectations andpredilection for obvious style parody, whether it's The Normal("Thrills") or Brian Eno ("Great Release"), became somewhat tiresome."Yr City's A Sucker" is a non-album track originally released as aB-side to "Movement," but here it is released in an extended mix withan instrumental mix on the reverse. At nine compelling minutes, theinclusion of a few more tracks like this one might have saved LCDSoundsystem's album. As it stands, this one track is superior toanything that made it to the album, a slowly percolating, loosey-gooseygroove with nonsense lyrics and loads of attitude. Murphy and crew seemto not even care if the various programmed rhythms, handclaps and syntharpeggiations ever gel and form a danceable song, which paradoxicallyis what makes the track succeed. "Your city's a sucker/Your city's acreep," Murphy dispiritedly intones repeatedly, as the various elementsof the track fall in and out of synch, providing many deliciously noisymoments of abstraction, even as the bassline and beat form a consistentbackbone that lends itself to dancing. The instrumental is exactly asadvertised—the same groovy shit with all of the vocals filtered out foryour mixing convenience. This track is destined to be the set openerfor weeks to come at all of those glamorous Williamsburg loft partiesthat you won't get invited to.
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- Lucas Schleicher
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Infraction
Everything about this recording istransformative: it eliminates time, balances every aspect of theenvironment it is played in, and subtly coerces any negative or violentmood into one of contentment and ease. The dynamics on the record aredeceptive, changing so softly and slowly so that it is difficult tocatch the exact moment that any change actually occurs. Hums modulate,pseudo-melodies pitch and bend, but the aura of each track seems tobleed into the next without fail; Movements is incrediblywell-conceived and constructed seamlessly, as though it were imaginedas one continuous transformation. As far as actual instrumentationgoes, it's difficult to discern whether or not these are over-processedinstruments drawn out into oblivion or simply keyboards layered uponmore keyboards. Whichever happens to be true is unimportant, part ofthe miracle of Derrick's work is that the instrumentation never changesbut stays consistently inviting, beautiful, and captivatingnonetheless. "The Tension Was Beautiful" segues into "Are We Water" inthe same way that one movement of symphony might slip into the next.Instead of a whole range of instruments being used, Derrick minimalizeshis available sources and bleeds every last ounce of soul out of them.Sometimes, as on "A Waterboat Singing Having Sunk," the instrumentssound as if they are singing, harmonizing the way multiple violins orcellos do together, and at other times they are without reference andabstract, but still earthly and familiar. I've never felt quite sowonderful listening to a record—the speakers seem to pour out lightwhen it plays. I have heard only a small handful of records capable ofcausing physical effects in the listener, but this is one of thoserecords that literally speaks to and alters the body. I've found myskin tingling, butterflies in my stomach, and a steady bliss throughoutmy bones every time I've put Movements on, and that has been avery good number of times in just the last few days alone... never mindthe weeks I've been soaking in its bright ghost and losing myselfentirely.
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- Jim Siegel
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Mirex/Cock Rock Disco
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- Jason Forrest - Sadist Hop
- Pure - Fight 'Em
- Duran Duran Duran - A God Among Men
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City Centre Offices
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Bulb
Despite all their references being established and well-knownperformers of years past, their music is hard to shove aside as justrip-off material or more-of-the-same rock music. 25 Suaves obviouslylove what they do and their newest record is a blast to play at highlevels and head bang with. "Turn Up the Music" opens the record likethe mission statement every boy and girl has ever dreamed up whilelistening to their favorite guitarists, vocalists, and drummers: "Mylife is making rock / from underground / I pray my life to have time /to make this sound / Loud, I want it Loud." Images of beer spillingeverywhere and technicolor mohawks spring immediately to mind andbefore long the molasses-thick guitars and abused drums turn intohypnotic layers of rock holiness, dedicated to the destruction of everything established... to hell with the details. With titles like "Born Dead" and "Let it Burn," the thematic elements of I Want it Loudare right on the sleeve and the music doesn't even remotely fail tolive up to those teenage concepts. Maybe 25 Suaves are playing on somerather immature impulses and all that other nonsense, but in that waythere is absolutely nothing hindering their thunderous sound: noweighty concepts or overly complex rhythms and riffs overshadow theeffect that the music has. Each song is completely energizing andworthy of broken chairs, bruised bodies, and police officers raidingunderage drinkers in their best friend's uncle's basement. Repeatedlistens don't actually inhibit the record from being any more fun,either. Playing it in the car, at home, while cooking dinner, and whilebeing alone and secretly rocking out like I was part of the band haveall shown I Want it Loud to be an insanely and confoundinglyexcellent record through and through. All of these songs should soundstandard and absolutely boring with their repetitive and imitativesound, but all the power and recklessness this album harbors onlyreminds me why I was so addicted to rock n' roll in the first place.
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- How Long
- Dear Mr. Bush, There are over 100 words for shit and only 1 for Music. Fuck You, Out Hud
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- Phonotacid (Analord 02)
- Midi Evil Rave 1 (Analord 03)
- Halibut Acid (Analord 04)
- Cilonen (Analord 05)
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Absence is the heaviest hitting release to date from hip hop'sloudest collective. For the first time, the words come close tomatching the sounds in weight. According to the eponymous frontman, therecord is a statement on hometown Newark, NJ, and suffice to say itwon't be promoted by the Chamber of Commerce.
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