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DAT Politics: Wow Twist

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by Matthew Willson

We're really late off the bat with this one, so I'll keep it short and sweet.

I'm full of caffeine, sugar, and absolutely sick of dull, worthy music. Noisy indie rock. I have the attention span of a goldfish, and I need something to jump about in my face and ENTERTAIN me. Something gloriously silly, gloriously catchy, melodic and eminently danceable. This album delivers on all counts.

It's electro-pop, but not perpetrated by the tedious armies of bored, coked-up electroclash tits who plagued the genre some years previous. This comes wired directly from the brains of attention-deficit French stoners. They jump around on stage. They layer ludicrously catchy synth lines and cute, loud, impatient outbursts of silly vocal over rock-solid quirky house beats. They have Tigerbeat6 pedigree. They are, frankly, the shit, and this is their best, poppiest album to date.

"Today, I think I have enough now! So can you please! turn my brain off! So can you please! Turn my brain off!"

Yes please. Brains are not required for dancing. And I take back my comment about goldfish - I'm sure if a tank of them were played this album they'd flap around dancing for way more than seven seconds. It's that fucking catchy.

  • DAT Politics 9 / 10

yay

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truth

one of the best reviews i've read on here recently

he's back in town


cheers raz

I am back in town

I snuck this one in after the editors had gone home... haha

Awesome album


v good review

nice and succinct and to the point. none of this wordiness and pretention that some of the reviewers here enjoy so much.

album sounds great.


great review of a great album

I love it, but some lame people find it "too much". If I'm shelling out £10 for an album it had better be "too much", why the fuck would I pay £10 for "not quite enough"


Excellent album

I found this album by chance the other day, and it isn't really like anything else I listen to but I have to say I love it and it wants to make me explore this kind of music further. I especially love the track 'my toshiba is alive'


i like it

a lot, it's crazy! It does sound a lot like cheesy German techno in places though...


You say that

as though it's a bad thing!


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