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- Summary: The debut full-length album for the South African indie rock band was recorded in three weeks.
- Record Label: Secretly Canadian
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Positive: 18 out of 21
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Mixed: 3 out of 21
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Negative: 0 out of 21
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After Robots exudes an energy and a lack of self-consciousness that is exciting and refreshing.
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All context aside, After Robots just plain rocks--a hugely creative, expansive and forceful piece of work.
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UncutFusing dub, psychedelic funk, prog, art rock and roots reggae with their native mbaqanga and township blues, they've fashioned a fresh (Afro) funky debut, politicized not sollely by colour, but also by their genre-bending vision. [Dec 2009, p. 87]
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Forget hi-life vibes: this psychedelic trip takes you from Jo'Burg to Brooklyn and way, way beyond.
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They fit into the indie rock genre about as loosely as Bad Brains fit the hardcore punk stereotype or Living Colour fit in the hair metal mold. Who cares? Pigeonholing is futile, the music is boundless.
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There are bits of jazz and dub, but mostly these guys want to rock. When they do it their way, they sound like nothing else.
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It's a promising thought to know there are musicians this deft and so easily able to push themselves through so many sonic boundaries at once--but in the end, the overt and ultimately, stifling seriousness surrounding it proves to be the largest boundary BLK JKS stand before.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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gomad361Sep 12, 2009Overproduction courtesy perhaps of the "tutelage of Secret Machines
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DonC.Oct 5, 2009
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