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Although still flying the party flag, their hectic mash-up of house, disco and hedonism is no longer quite so thrilling, even with help from Santigold.
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Q MagazineSimon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton have retrenched, recruited a slew of vocalists and made the sort of uptempo record they were doing at the turn of the century. [Oct 2009, p.107]
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UncutBasement Jaxx still manage to exceed expectations with each album. [Oct 2009, p.91]
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Return To Form from last electro band standing.
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Scars is a peculiarly irritating sort of failure. It's an overachieving, overqualified failure.
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This is their best album in years, but there’s no real progression here. Ono’s mindfuck of a performance is proof: when a band needs to include such bizarreness as their record’s experimental centerpiece, perhaps they are working a little too hard to prove their expressive worth.
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MojoKelis' involvement in the brooding title track can't save it from its fundamental dullness, warped, tetchy ska of 'Saga' fails to get under your skin, They're better on the camp, ecstatic single 'Raindrops,' and the hollering soul jive of 'She's No good.' [Oct 2009, p.98]
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The Brixton duo’s music fails to connect with any of the collaborating vocalists, to the point where you wonder if those involved were even in the same room together.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 20
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Mixed: 3 out of 20
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Negative: 1 out of 20
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