FIRST PUBLISHED AT THE LINE OF BEST FIT 7/10 Synth pop is apparently making a big comeback in 2009, I say apparently because I don’t listen to the radio, watch TV or live in an English-speaking country, so it’s easy to shield myself from the probably excessive hype surrounding artists such as, say, Little Boots, [...]
Album Review: The Juan Maclean – The Future Will Come
February 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment · dance, Electro, electroclash, Music
Tags:dance·Dancefloor·DFA·disco·Electro·electroclash·James Murphy·Juan MacLean·New York·nightclubs·Synth pop
LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
March 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Best of 2007, dance, Electro, MP3s, Music, Pop/Rock
“… now you see it’s sucking you in!” 8/10 I found James Murphy’s first album a complete turn-off: the studied cool, the nods and winks to oblique musical references, the ‘tongue-in-cheek’ lyrics. LCD Soundsystem has even been described as dance-punk nostalgia for music journalists. The in-jokery and general calculated irony seemed like cold artifice, dispassionate. [...]
Tags:cowbell·DFA·disco·Electro·Funk·House·James Murphy·MP3·New Wave·No Wave·Punk·Synth pop
The Juan Maclean, Less Than Human
July 20th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Best of 2005, dance, Electro, Electronica, Music
Deconstructed disco 7/10 One of the main men (alongside James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy) behind DFA and former member of Six-Finger Satellite, Juan Maclean’s debut is damaged electro with a dark heart. For all its inferences to robotic disco, this is not a Daft Punk album (despite the similarity in name to that band’s latest: [...]
Tags:303·dance·DFA·disco·Electro·Electronica·IDM·James Murphy·Six-Finger Satellite·Tim Goldsworthy·vocoder