Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do - Major Lazer
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77 out of 100

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8.6 out of 10

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  • Summary: Switch and Diplo team up to release their first album as Major Lazer.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 24
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  1. Paste Magazine
    93
    The production overall is impeccable and the sequencing shrewd; the tracks feel visceral and visual--you can almost see them as they hurtle by. The album’s overall effect is less deafening than blinding.
  2. The Guardian
    80
    The album sometimes feels like a cherrypicking trawl through 40 years of Jamaican musical history, but it's all done with such energy and flair that it's difficult not to obey instructions and shake your bottom frenetically.
  3. All Music Guide
    80
    The results are impressive standard-bearers for dancehall, displaying the duo's ample facility for floating the type of productions that have made dancehall the most experimental and extreme type of commercial dance music since it dawned in the mid-'80s.
  4. Under The Radar
    60
    What starts as an Avalanches-like ring-tone gallop ultimately blows its load on dancehall-robo sex. [Summer 2009, p.73]
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