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- Artist(s): Pete Wareham, Kushal Gaya, Shabaka Hutchings, Tom Skinner
- Summary: The debut release for the avant-garde jazz group that includes Kushal Gaya, Ruth Goller, Shabaka Hutchings, Satin Singh, Tom Skinner, and Pete Wareham was produced by Leafcutter John.
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- Record Label: The Leaf Label
- Genre(s): Electronic, Jazz
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Positive: 8 out of 9
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Mixed: 1 out of 9
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Negative: 0 out of 9
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Jun 13, 2013It’s compelling stuff; we need more musicians who are prepared to go nuts in this delightfully joyous way.
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Jun 13, 2013The collective’s strength lies in their snakelike energy: all coiled muscle, hypnotic sway and dangerous unpredictability. The flaw is that it can all get a bit lairy.
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UncutJun 13, 2013The result is a pulsating, itchily funky brew, pitched somewhere between Pigbag and Can. [Jul 2013, p.78]
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Jun 13, 2013The music Melt Yourself Down make on this eight song, 36-minute debut album is insanely full of energy and ideas, a tumultuous barrage of snaky, infectious hooks and punishingly addictive grooves.
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Jun 20, 2013North African rhythms are an inspiration, and vocalist Gaya's bellowings in French, Creole and personal gibberish also give the band much of its helldriving character.
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Jun 21, 2013There’s enough raucous obnoxiousness, not to mention effortless expert musicianship, in these eight tracks and thirty-five minutes to mark Melt Yourself Down out be the front-runner for not just that token Mercury nod, but the ironic moustache twiddling party album of the year.
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Jun 17, 2013This debut feels far too uncoordinated, un-moderated and incoherent to do more than dazzle and confuse in equal proportions before leaving the listener to make sense of what just happened.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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Jun 30, 2013
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Jul 9, 2013
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