- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Release Date: Jun 17, 2014
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MagnetJul 18, 2014In plain but very powerful terms, it's one of the smartest albums ever released. [No. 111, p.61]
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Jun 17, 2014Daniel has successfully harnessed this concept to produce an impressively cohesive art object on all fronts, one that yields perhaps the most provocative statement any musician is likely to make all year. It just might be a little too provocative for some.
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Jun 13, 2014On Why Do the Heathen Rage?, Daniel has managed to bring the intellectual and the primal together for one big dance party.
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Jun 17, 2014The results of these experiments can be on the nose, like doing a gender switch on Brazilian extreme metal act Sarcofago.... Others take a little bit of unpacking.
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Jun 13, 2014Rage is, by turns, ridiculous, overly-serious, and self-satisfying. It’s also one helluva EDM record and an intelligent send-up of an otherwise difficult-to-work-with (and work in) music genre.
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Jun 20, 2014He’s strip-mined one thing he loves in order to drive another. In doing so, he’s found a wonderful, unexpected kind of combustion.
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The WireJul 14, 2014What is most striking about Why Do The Heathen Rage?, Which reworks Black metal songs as electro, house and techno, is how intelligently respectful it is. [Jun 2014, p.55]
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Jul 8, 2014By and large, the songs on Why Do the Heathen Rage? are brilliantly executed hybrids that manage to subvert received ideas even once you’ve processed the album’s premise, thanks to superb transposing and Daniel’s knack for lashing together motifs from utterly different styles.
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Q MagazineJul 2, 2014A vigorously thought-provoking record. [Aug 2014, p.113]
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Jun 24, 2014The striking concept alone is enough to make this album worth a listen. That it turned out to be so inspiring is a happy byproduct of the whole experiment.
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Jun 20, 2014Daniel lives by his music and his ideas, without any arbitrary distinctions between the two. If nothing else, Why Do the Heathen Rage? is massively refreshing for that reason.
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Jun 19, 2014The most radical makeovers highlight how great some of these songs are.
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Jun 18, 2014Sugar and spice and everything twisted, Daniel continues to write music for people who like to think about why they like something and can appreciate creative, sincere homage.
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Jun 17, 2014The result is the rare heady corrective that's as fun as it is thoughtful.
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Jun 16, 2014Equally critical and affectionate and entirely fascinating, it's some of Daniel's most personal music.
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Jun 13, 2014It’s catchy, perfectly executed, and succeeds in both honouring the better aspects of a much maligned scene whilst also sticking two fingers up at the horrific ideologies that still populate it.
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UncutJun 26, 2014While somewhat novelty, it's hard not to appreciate Daniel's conceptual moxie. [Aug 2014, p.79]
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Under The RadarJun 13, 2014Rage pays homage as well, geared as much toward rethinking the form as upending it. [Jun/Jul 2014, p.94]
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