Kish Kash
- Basement Jaxx
- Band Name: Basement Jaxx
- Record Label: Astralwerks
- Release Date: Oct 21, 2003
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100Simply awesome.
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100An album that sets the bar for density and imagination almost unreasonably high.
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91Some of the most propulsive, ferocious music of the year as well as some of the most poignant.
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The richest and most fervent music the Jaxx have ever made. [24 Oct 2003, p.104]
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90Three albums in and Basement Jaxx are still so far ahead of the pack that they're a barely visible dust cloud on the horizon.
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90A truly exhilarating 50 minutes of music. [Dec 2003, p.122]
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Kish Kash may be the best dance record of 2003, but it's the least imaginative LP the duo have ever released.
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90Quite how or where the new album fits into the contemporary music landscape isn't clear, but what's recognizable and of import is that somewhat out of time, Basement Jaxx have produced their best sustained effort so far.
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A kaleidoscopic dance record that borrows a bit from Remedy and Rooty but... has a labyrinthine identity all its own. [#5, p.98]
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80A funky good time from two house music smarty pants with a future.
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Review 1:Kish Kash suffers from a surfeit of ideas and sounds; quite simply there is too much going on here. [score=70] Review 2:It is simply how dance music--natch, pop music--should be done. [score=90]
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80As far as style and technique go, it's more of the same; quite literally MORE. 'Kish-Kash'? Mish-mash: Basement Jaxx make dancefloor monsters, Frankenstein's monster stylee.
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80Truly, a glorious noise. [Nov 2003, p.128]
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80Their most violently inventive album yet. [Nov 2003, p.109]
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80Pushes the boundaries so far it's difficult to even call what they do "house" anymore. [Nov 2003, p.88]
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80Most of Kish Kash sounds like the album they intended to make after Remedy. [Nov 2003, p.106]
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The energy never sags and ideas never flag.
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A downbeat, surprisingly ruminative affair, less concerned with dance-floor breakouts than the inevitable post-party comedown.
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It's not stretching to suggest that they've complicated house music's ease so effectively that Kish Kash often resembles, well, postpunk.
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75Where Basement Jaxx's diversity used to serve a club-DJ flow, here they let it off the leash, with mixed results. [Dec 2003, p.126]
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70There's a recurring sense of enforced jollity.
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A naggingly problematic record, with a void at its heart that no amount of cool celebrity mates can quite conceal.
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60Each song here is crammed with all kinds of Kool & the Gang hand claps and Chemical Brothers bass drops. [Dec 2003, p.218]
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Struggles to offer the same level of excitement that previous Jaxx albums provided.
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TedD9great album
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RodrigoA10Basement Jaxx go for the next level: awersome , danceable post punk electronica and romatic beats doing the background...