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Metascore
60

Mixed or average reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews What's this?

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7.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings

  • Summary: The London-based electronica duo move toward a darker, dirtier, more electroclash-oriented sound on this third studio album.
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 10
  2. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. Impossibly crisp production, impeccable interplay between rhythm and effects, and the most difficult quality for any electronica producer to nail down: a crucial, distinctive sound.
  2. Urb
    80
    It's that very punk rock-gone-underground-dance spirit that separates Swayzak's latest from the more rudimentary electro-art pack. [Oct 2002, p.98]
  3. Despite some clunkers, Dirty Dancing delivers.
  4. While it's tempting to write it off as but one more retro paste-up, Swayzak's uncanny sense of texture, timbre, and space justifies an approach that otherwise seems like a drift toward Alzheimer's.
  5. Dirty Dancing works best when there is something to balance against the brittle, Atari-era underflow.
  6. Unfortunately, the vocalists riding on top of the grooves, from the limpid Clair Dietrich to the ridiculously affected Jeremy, are uniformly l-a-m-e.
  7. The Wire
    30
    Uncomfortable deliery and thin lyrical content suggest that utilising vocals isn't their strong suit. [#223, p.69]

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