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Universal acclaim- based on 8 Ratings

  • Summary: Switch and Diplo team up to release their first album as Major Lazer.
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  1. 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 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. 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. 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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