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- Summary: This is the third album for the Brooklyn, New York duo.
- Record Label: Beggars XL
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Electronic
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 22
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Mixed: 7 out of 22
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Negative: 0 out of 22
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While these beats keep you hooked without a single word, surely they'd sound phenomenal with the right vocal on top. [15 Aug 2008, p.67]
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The result is some kind of cosmic machine music, reflecting not just a stoner’s world of internalized minimalist headbanging but an entire universe of culture, texture, and possibility.
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Adventurous beat-mining producers like the aforementioned West could very well be using bits of several of these tracks for a Common beat before the year is finished. But even if that doesn't happen, keep this collection close: Someone's definitely going to try to steal your copy.
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LP3 is a stronger outing, though it's not necessarily harder or faster.
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LP3 is as wildly organic as instrumental electronica gets without becoming another genre (or five) altogether.
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The balancing act that any group has to perform in successive albums remains askew here. In trying to bring outside influences into their specific sound, Ratatat have gained an appreciation for novel sounds, even if they don't fit in well.
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UncutThe result is strangely enervating. [Aug 2008, p.103]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 6
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Mixed: 0 out of 6
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Negative: 0 out of 6
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Oct 5, 2013People may find the album a bit weird, but it's great. Ratatat uses not-so-conventional techniques of playing, but I think it's their greatest album..
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CaseyE.Jul 9, 2008Some completely different techniques, but the same old, awesome Ratatat.
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KurtW.Jul 9, 2008
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SiegeJul 10, 2008
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Jun 4, 2021
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MalteS.Jul 10, 2008
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