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Alternative PressSweaty and thick, convincingly urgent and highly sexual. [Jul 2006, p.210]
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"The Looks" throws up more sure-fire dance starters than anything [we've] heard in a while.
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It[']s by no means an album for all times, and can get too repetitive for its own good, but in the right place, at the right moment not much tops it.
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Poaching multifarious links from dance music's evolutionary chain, MSTRKRFT grind the good-time sounds of Marshall Jefferson-era Chicago house with harder Detroit techno, and use much of the rest of the album to stretch their ideas out.
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True, there's a pop sensibility at work here that betrays their band roots, but that's exactly what makes this the kind of dance album you can actually listen to from beginning to end.
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Keeler succeeds in meticulously reconstructing the electronic music he clearly has a taste for, but without stirring in any of his own personality the songs do little more than run in place, joylessly hitting the marks without changing the rules in any meaningful or attention-grabbing way.
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MSTRKRFT have essentially made an album of great productions and remixes and then forgotten to invite any artists or records along to help them out.
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The Looks is prevented from achieving classic status due to its derivative nature, but its finds success in the Daft Punk formula all the same.
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Q MagazineIt's heavy-duty stuff, and all the better for it. [Mar 2007, p.115]
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SpinDoes its best to earn a few Daft Punk comparisons. [Aug 2006, p.82]
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The Looks is like the Witness Protection Program of electronic disco, where they put the folks for whom the normal anonymity of dance DJ's is simply not enough.
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It just about succeeds in sweaty five-minute blasts, but there's no excuse for a record as flatly anonymous as this.
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UncutA highly unoriginal record. [Mar 2007, p.86]
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UrbThe Looks shows off MSTRKRFT's deep understanding of making people move. [Jul/Aug 2006, p.125]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 19
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Mixed: 4 out of 19
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Negative: 5 out of 19
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JohnnySMar 4, 2007
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DavidSNov 5, 2006
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ChrisLOct 11, 2006