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Alternative PressMay be Jackson's best work to date.... Playgroup is effortlessly retro, without sounding dated. [Apr 2002, p.80]
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His most impressive sound collage yet.
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UrbA fabulous freeform fiesta of punky reggae and funky dance-pop. [Mar 2002, p.120]
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The album favors songs over tracks, taking a rewind approach to a time before dance music took on dutifully functional connotations.
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This is an album where the magic is all in the details: the exquisite interplay of different drum sounds, the textural alternation of succulent and crisp. The songs are merely serviceable.
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Throughout, Jackson digs deep into his sources and parties all the time.
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SpinWhen it all cooks properly, as on the sultry, sweaty "Number One," Jackson's retro pastiches generate steam heat. [May 2002, p.125]
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Coming up in the discothèque all disco/not-disco, Jackson's perspicacious hindsight gazes back to what was winning back in the day, now dragging it into the drag-and-drop to create pro-tooled playlist pop, its parts glued together into a seamless, shiny, mirroring whole.
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By co-opting and debasing punk-disco's vitality and sincerity and thereby rendering the style accessible to the botox-and-bulimia set, Jackson betrays the visions of those whose ecstatically powerful music he lavishly degrades.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 3
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Negative: 1 out of 3
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SophieCApr 3, 20058 purely because i love the fatboy remix of front2back. It's on the Blue Crush soundtrack and always reminds me of summer parties.
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[Anonymous]Feb 18, 2005Wonderful,original and every track is good.
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MichaelS.Apr 11, 2002