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No longer experimenting for experimentation's sake, every beat-breaking decision on Myth Takes serves to reinforce the monumental rhythms.
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Myth Takes is a taut culmination that may just tear dance floors asunder with its locomotive inexorability.
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Much like their debut, it'll take a few listens to be pulled towards Myth Takes by the force operates at its core.
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The only problem is that, like the Rapture last year, they've made their best album a good three years after the cultural capital of discopunk has been spent.
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Myth Takes is a record that's tough not to enjoy, even while you're wondering if you shouldn't.
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If Louden Up Now was the sound of !!! trying to integrate their fusion of conflicting ideas and failing admirably, Myth Takes is the band not giving a damn and succeeding improbably at something even more interesting.
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Yet even if the lyrics actively discourage the application of your undivided attention, this is !!!'s most songful work yet.
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[Myth Takes] basically finds the group taking the best parts of their past releases and improving on them in dramatic ways.
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The major stumbling blocks of !!!'s shtick still pertain.
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Their best yet: it’s multi-faceted like no release before it (from the band’s catalogue), and each and every nuance is super funky.
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Under The RadarMyth Takes is certainly more epic than the band's first two albums, and in most ways improves on their Clash + speed + funk equation. [#16, p.89]
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Urb[The band has] gotten down to the more important work of constructing airtight grooves with just enough weirding-out to show their legion of followers that it takes more than a drummer with good 16th-note skills to rock this party right. [Mar 2007, p.96]
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Alternative PressTheir most accessible and uncompromising album.... !!! deftly balance adventurousness with fun--a potent combo that too few bands achieve. [Apr 2007, p.192]
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UncutParts of Myth Takes [are] as close to commercial... as !!! can get without combusting. [Apr 2007, p.92]
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Not too many bands even in heyday of the initial wave of dance-punk released records as full of energy, intelligence, and ferocious funk as this.
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There are lots of references thrown into their oddball funk, but it's starting to sound completely logical and natural.
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BlenderToo bad about the self-important, chanted lyrics, which rattle on even when the band's trying to stretch out and groove. [Apr 2007, p.110]
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SpinMyth Takes juxtaposes tribal post-punk with crooked attempts at actual pop, giving their epic groove-riders a booty-stimulating boost. [Mar 2007, p.86]
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Paste MagazineMyth Takes doesn't confuse whiny indie solipsism with aerobic ass-jiggling. Ditching the former leads to the salacious fun of the latter. [Mar 2007, p.68]
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FilterWith Myth Takes, [!!!] cleans up from trying to get people to trip balls and instead tries to make them just dance really fucking hard for like an hour or so... while tripping balls. [#24, p.96]
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Entertainment WeeklyFew can match their percussive intensity. Weaker are their attempts at acutal songs, of which there are a few too many here. [9 Mar 2007, p.109]
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Billboard"Myth Takes" ... should see the festive art-rock collective bop its way out of cult status, as each of the 10 cuts on this album adventurously cascade through genres without ever losing a groove. [10 Mar 2007]
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MagnetIf you're sitting still through Myth Takes, you might be dead. [#75, p.90]
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With a marked improvement in lyrical content, !!! have also brought the beats.
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As previous albums did, Myth Takes sees !!! aiming high in terms of grandiosity and intensity but falling short of its ambitions.
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It delivers on the promise of Louden Up, with infectious beats and a kitchen-sink approach.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 28 out of 33
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Mixed: 4 out of 33
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Negative: 1 out of 33
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