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Jul 25, 2016Ultimately, the harder, almost techno-inclined instrumental tracks, such as Little Red Hen or Death in the Gulf Stream, are infinitely better than those burdened with vocals, some lairy and crass, some merely unengaging.
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Jul 22, 2016So far, so great. But when the use of vocals is taken into overdrive on final track ‘Go On Without Me’, where Jacob Bannon from hardcore punks Converge offers up his jarring scream, it’s almost on the borderline of becoming too much.
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UncutJul 19, 2016The blitzkrieg is offset by a vein of black humour, epitomised by Ian Svenonius' hilariously pitiless guest vocal on "Party Line." But as with any military campaign, fatigue eventually sets in. [Aug 2016, p.80]
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Jul 20, 2016There is plenty of decent stuff going on in the duo's third record, but it still never really takes off into any rarified territory.
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Jul 19, 2016Ultimately, their third record doesn't show MSTRKRFT to be master craftsmen.
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Jul 19, 2016Operator drags the listener kicking and screaming into what sounds like the soundtrack to the depths of hell, where the only music available is an unrelenting, want-to-bang-your-head-against-the-wall symphony of noise.
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Aug 10, 2016With Runaway, MSTRKRFT find a balance between the antagonistic incursion and electro-funk wizardry, but asides from that standout, the record as a whole is a jarring affair.
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Q MagazineJul 26, 2016Bursts of corrosive techno that have all the instrumental variety of a car alarm. [Sep 2016, p.108]
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Jul 21, 2016There’s a glimmer of what could have been on Runaway, its whirring wooze like a motorbike riding its front wheel deliriously along inky tarmac, driven by a “doo-doo-doo” pop hook.
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Jul 19, 2016Hard-partying techno heads will love the anxiety-inducing tone of Operator; others may see this as a missed opportunity, after a regenerative five-year hiatus, for MSTRKRFT to explore creative nuance over noise.