Ay Ay Ay - Matias Aguayo
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  • Summary: The Chilean-born artist now based in Paris and Buenos Aires releases his second solo album.

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  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 8
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  1. The Boston Phoenix
    100
    Ay Ay Ay, the second full-length effort from Chilean-born, German-raised Matias Aguayo (who now splits time between Buenos Aires and Paris) is, in source and spirit, one of the most human dance-pop records of the year.
  2. All Music Guide
    80
    If this is not the most live-sounding dance album made with synthetic instrumentation, it must be pretty close.
  3. Mojo
    80
    A dizzying series of minimalist Afro-psych mantras, Ay Ay Ay interlaces eccentric pounding beats, multitrack boom-tsch hiccups, and nervy fragmented vocals, building a groove that crackles with the rhythmic perversity of Arthur Russell's strangest sound experiments but drives on like a reborn TV On The Radio who've learnt to lose it down the disco. [Jan 10, p. 90]
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  4. Drowned In Sound
    60
    It’s a clever and often highly entertaining album with inbuilt limitations, but if you buy one record this year whose title is possibly a reference to Bumblebee Man from The Simpsons, it should probably be this one.

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  1. MorriBey
    10
    Excellent album. Should be more well known but its not. Great mix of Electronic and lyrics. I love it. One of my Top albums of 2010. Battles have just done a mix with him on their latest album Gloss drop. (track Ice-cream )… Expand

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