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Album Review: !!! - Myth Takes (Warp Records, 05/03/2007)
The annual winners of both most-hyphenated-band-description-ever and hardest-band-to-Google awards will never be a singles band. !!!, fortunately, know what they have got. They’re still the tightly-knit-post-disco-funk-punk-tour-de-force that they’ve been known to become, and Myth Takes does nothing to shake that up...
Don’t talk to James Murphy about maturity. The purveyor of the first cowbell revival of the 21st century has seen it all before. Here, Mr. DFA builds on the success of debut smash ‘LCD Soundsystem’ and relative acclaim of Nike-sponsored jog soundtrack 45:33 to bring in something equal in warm calculation as it is to dance-friendly smiles on your face...
Life isn’t all grit and soggy chips. And you’d better remember this when Hadouken! roll into your village. Their dirty alchemy, blending grime and metal, will slap a day-glo smile on your face whether you like it or not. Plus point: beneath all the fun and fashionable disco hi-hattery, Hadouken! sound a bit like a rave...