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- Summary: The Berlin-based duo named after the video director releases its second album.
- Record Label: Hippos in Tanks
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Experimental Rock
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MojoMay 18, 2011Their music is an improbably addictive miasma of chopped-up spoken-word fragments and spectral electronica. [May 2011, p.110]
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Apr 11, 2011While, for some, two spoken-word tracks--Untitled and Untitled (And Your Batty's So Round)--may bring to mind nothing so much as Baz Luhrmann's Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen), others may find it all strangely addictive.
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Apr 11, 2011One Nation may not demand repeated spins, but its lack of form and formality is refreshing.
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Apr 11, 2011At its best, One Nation sounds like a beat tape left to crackle for a decade in somebody's garage, a kind of post-Chronic spin on one of those far-out late 70s dub-inflected collaborative krautrock LPs. But other times it feels like a series of conceptual curios that seems to think holding the listener at arm's length might even be too close.
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Apr 11, 2011Lacking as it does the songwriting spark of Ariel Pink, the record lacks cohesion.
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UncutApr 13, 2011Curdled cuts of lover's R&B are oddly beguiling, but best are the dancier cuts like "Warlord," a blissful excursion in strobing percussion and luxurious, frothy synths. [May 2011, p.88]
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The WireAug 17, 2011One Nation's ability to alternate and combine insolence with detachment yields moments of inspired incongruity. [Jul 2011, p.49]
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