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The only thing that prevents Fantastic Playroom from being a wholly perfect creation is the simple fact that, as good as it is, this is still only their first album.
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Fantastic Playroom puts the emphasis on the content, not the trend, and in so doing makes a damn good case for post-punk's matriculation.
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It is a fetching 40-minute album, with each song supplying its own set of penetrating hooks, ear-ticklingly sharp guitars, moody synthesizer gauze, and mobile rhythms.
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If Fantastic is saying anything meaningful, it's "shut the hell up and have some fun."
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NYPC's restrained disco needs to rip it up and get wilder, cos this down‘n’dirty posse is actually cleaner than a Boots cosmetics counter.
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Fantastic Playroom packs enough innovation in its boosters to reach new rave escape velocity.
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As singles, most of these songs would fly off of the shelves, but taken as a whole album it can get a bit tiring.
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It's almost as if Fantastic Playroom is trying to do too much. With so many agendas, it's a miracle that New Young Pony Club ended up all on the same page at all. Such ambition makes Fantastic Playroom a disjointed experience, but its triumphs are worth delighting in.
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After the sass and bluster of the first half, the record settles into a rather one-dimensional groove.
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The icy joylessness with which Bulmer humors her band's recordings doesn't ruin everything, shockingly enough.
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Over a whole album, the formula wears thin, and they sound like a band trying too hard to be trendy.
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New Young Pony Club claim they can give us what we want, but they haven’t got a clue what we need.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 29 out of 42
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Mixed: 3 out of 42
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Negative: 10 out of 42
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JusticeBJul 28, 2008
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RichardS.Oct 4, 2007The album is ok and whoever is leaving all those zeros...dude stop using diff. names we know you are the same person.
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moeisweAug 23, 2007i think they're good and i like css too.