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- Record Label: Rykodisc
- Release Date: May 25, 2004
- Summary: The producer and electroclash artist returns with a proper follow-up to 2001's 'Kittenz and Thee Glitz.' Guest vocalists include the titular Neon Fever as well as James Murphy (the DFA).
- Record Label: Rykodisc
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 17
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Mixed: 2 out of 17
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Negative: 1 out of 17
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However, if 'Devin Dazzle And The Neon Fever' proves anything, it proves that Felix knows three years have passed since [Kittenz]. Now he's partying like it's 1984. It's a development of almost comical chutzpah, and it's one that he wears terrifically well.
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It's all a welcome change from dance-scene earnestness, and worth 48 minutes of anyone's time.
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UncutThe sort of herky, jerky new wave Molly Ringwald might have bopped to in The Breakfast Club. [Jun 2004, p.95]
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Hyper-concept pseudo-narratives aside, Devin Dazzle is, in a word, shocking, where shocking = rocking and rocking = danceable and danceable = nuts and nuts = 80s kitsch-sex-funk-house-new-wave-punk-disco.
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FilterHousecat isn't exactly reinventing the wheel; he's dusting it off and spray painting it electric blue. [#9, p.102]
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If label executives of 1982 were brought to the present day, they'd hear at least six singles here.
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Entertainment Weekly[Its] Atari-quality grooves and soulless Berlin homages reek of '80s hipster trash. [4 June 2004, p.80]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4
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ErikKMay 28, 2004
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PaulKJun 4, 2004old techniques renewed and recycled into something truly catchy and beautiful. one of the most interesting records to come out this year. pickitup.
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JohnVMay 28, 2004Excellent retrofuturistic fun house!
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MichaelKJun 16, 2004
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