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Apr 15, 2013Those who blew their minds and/or speakers pumping the project's 2009 debut will find it familiar ground, but how Free the Universe arguably tops Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do is with the meatier, more subdued cuts.
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May 3, 2013This is wall-shaking club music for screaming crowds and vast towers of sub-bass. It’s hard to imagine listening to the whole thing end to end unless you were also working a case of beer at the same pace.
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UncutApr 25, 2013It's all enjoyably preposterous. [Jun 2013, p.75]
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Apr 15, 2013It's eclectic, but the linking thread is insistent dancehall beats and a sense of dumb, colourful fun.
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Apr 16, 2013It's less strictly Jamaican than Major Lazer's debut, connecting reggae's often-insular tradition to a wider world.
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Apr 11, 2013Fronted by the blond, blue-eyed Diplo, the whiff of the ersatz may remain with Major Lazer, especially on a couple of overwhelmingly screamy EDM tracks, but it's the same man's ability to craft memorable modern pop that has kept this project interesting.
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Apr 18, 2013Recorded at Jamaica's Tuff Gong studios, the record's strongest asset is making things that shouldn't work together sound natural.
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Apr 16, 2013Free the Universe is, after all, a party album, and by using an energetic mix of faces both famous and obscure, Diplo keeps his grungy dancehall rave running on all cylinders.
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Apr 16, 2013The multiple guest stars on each and every one of these 14 tracks have been upgraded from the regional heroes found on 2009 Lazer debut Guns Don’t Kill People Lazers Do to bona fide industry studs on Free the Universe. Some might view this third-world talent invasion as a form of dancehall imperialism, but there is depth here, respect, knowledge and oodles of heart... and enough freaky fun to dagger 52 weekends away.
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Positive: 15 out of 19
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Mixed: 4 out of 19
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Apr 18, 2013