| 80 |
All Music Guide
Despite relying on too many tricks from the Daft Punk playbook, they prove there's more up their sleeve than just vocoders.
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| 80 |
Q Magazine
It's a mess, but a glorious one. [Apr 2008, p.107]
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| 70 |
Filter
The synthetics have the heavy warp that most dance floors like to roick, even as they land somewhere between Meat Beat Manifesto, Gang of Four and Ghostalnd Observatory. [Spring 2008, p.100]
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| 70 |
Billboard
What the disc might lack in substance, it makes up for in some of the best sleazy, synthy, testosterone-fueled electronica since the Prodigy's 'Smack My Bitch Up.'
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| 70 |
Alternative Press
The gloriously retro You Have No Idea is what the last Rapture album should of been [May 2008, p.146]
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| 70 |
New Musical Express
That this debut tries for so much and almost achieves it all is to be applauded. However, in trying to run before they can walk, DIOYY have missed out on making the classic this could have been.
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| 60 |
Blender
It’s obvious, obnoxious and effective.
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| 60 |
Hot Press
Newcomer electro-rockers produce a hyperactive, ear-decimating album that screams with heavy synth and rhythms, but dies with a lack of inspiration and creativity.
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| 60 |
Under The Radar
Purporting to be brash and exciting, DIOFYY? offer up an album of decidedly non-offensive electro-pop. [Spring 2008, p.88]
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| 60 |
PopMatters
It’s fair to say that every song on You Have No Idea sounds different, but every one sounds like someone else, too. When everything is added up, it all falls a little short in every department.
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| 60 |
Spin
The only offensive thing about this English electro-rock outfit's debut is how blatantly they rip off Justice ripping off Daft Punk.
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| 60 |
The Guardian
Behind that David Brent-derived tag, Reading quartet Does It Offend You Yeah? make music with trashy, unpretentious brio.
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| 50 |
Prefix Magazine
You Have No Idea What You Are Getting Yourself Into is not a record to take seriously, and I suppose on some level it succeeds in reveling in that, even if it wasn’t the intention of the band.
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| 40 |
Uncut
The truth is, this is actually rather safe music. [Apr 2008, p.94]
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| 40 |
Mojo
The sneeringly portrentious title and tracks called'Being Bad Feels Pretty Good' or Epic Last Song' would be forgivable--japes, even--if there were a sense of bona fide abandon bubbling beneath the synth squelches, vocoder-shrouded vocals and obligatory cowbell bashing. [Apr 2008, p.114]
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| 40 |
Drowned In Sound
A shame, really, since there are couple of songs here displaying a melodic facility far in excess of the record’s dumbed-down intent.
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| 40 |
musicOMH.com
They asked, so we'll tell. Does it offend me? No. Does it bore me? Yes.
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| 23 |
Pitchfork
So this record's creative and artistic value is pretty much nil--in fact it only just hits competent.
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