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- Record Label: Palm Pictures
- Release Date: Sep 10, 2002
- Summary: The sophomore effort for the Los Angeles-based electronica/lounge duo (down from four members on their first outing) contains 11 new disco/lounge/world/electronica tracks, highlighted by lead single "Divine."
- Record Label: Palm Pictures
- Genre(s): Dance, Electronic, Lounge
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Mixed: 2 out of 5
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MixerAs good at home as in the clubs, the Beings don't compromise integrity for catchiness, managing to offer healthy helpings of both. [Sep 2002, p.76]
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As improbable as it sounds, imagine if Goldfrapp teamed up with Jamiroquai and you have a sense of what DOS sounds like -- seductive, ebullient, unabashedly retro, infectiously uptempo and wrapped up in the kind of maneater theatrics most pop music has shied away from since Shirley Bassey's "Goldfinger" heyday.
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Divine Operating System has something for everyone (unless, of course, you have a rabid hatred of disco... then you might not dig it too much).
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UrbPredominately shimmering and languid, at its raciest Divine Operating System achieves a poppy, disco canter that trades ass-slapping soul for sleek sensuality. [Sep 2002, p.104]
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BlenderYou've heard it all before--at least twice. [#10, p.128]
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Positive: 1 out of 2
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Negative: 1 out of 2
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JackTMar 13, 2005Amazing! So good.
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notafanofyouSep 13, 2004boring, what happened to the songwriting?
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