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We Are Monster has the depth if you have the time. Yep, here's a fun record that's a work-for-it, in-the-details record, too.
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UncutFinds Muller reviving a lush disco spirit he once discretely discarded. [Jul 2005, p.92]
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Q MagazineAlmost entirely instrumental, but full of a subtlety often obscured by words. [Jul 2005, p.114]
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Track-by-track stylistic swerves make the album singular and exciting, but like-minded swerves within the same tracks ultimately give We Are Monster its living, breathing charge.
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Five years on, We Are Monster finds Raijko Muller so confident and articulate that Rest comes off in comparison like a set of hastily scrawled clutch notes.
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The New York TimesGorgeous... One of the year's best electronic albums. [29 May 2005]
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If it's not a truly inspiring album, it's nevertheless undeniably impressive.
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The genius of Wearemonster is that Mueller takes the clarity and mobility of house and synergizes it with the overabundance of melodies, textures, theories, and arrangement schemes found in IDM.
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His best music has a kind of timbral vulnerability about it that makes you want to reach out and kiss his computer better.
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Faultless sequencing, an array of clever (and comfortably familiar) beats, and a refreshingly optimistic, apolitical vibe make We Are Monster a keeper.
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Record of the year.
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We Are Monster is one of those fun albums that sounds great whether you're in the mood to move or just sitting down and listening on headphones as you ride to work on the bus.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 24 out of 28
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Mixed: 3 out of 28
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Negative: 1 out of 28
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billyeSep 18, 2006Stunning.
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BobbyKMar 27, 2006While certainly not as immediate as Underworld, the album only requires a few listens before you're caught.
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JManFeb 19, 2006Best of it's genre in 2005.