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- Summary: Ratatat's LP4 includes some tracks from the recording sessions from the duo's 2008 release LP3.
- Record Label: XL
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Top Track
| Neckbrace | |
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| they were just getting ready to swing & knock me out with a baseball bat.... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 21
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Mixed: 8 out of 21
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Negative: 0 out of 21
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So LP4 may seem like a glorified mess but it has all the coherence and sensorial vigor of one of those Ed Hardy ink designs: unabashedly gaudy with a hard-assed physique; its Byzantium details revealing a mid-to-late century decadence that may still only appeal to a select audience.
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It is instrumental rock music that is experimental, emotional, colorful, and engaging, while skillfully blurring many musical boundaries.
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It means you can put on LP4 around any mixed group of people at a barbeque or house party this summer and people can simply enjoy the sensory pleasure of interesting, lively music without analysing the cultural baggage than comes with it. The King of Space-age Pop would surely be proud.
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LP4, without a shadow of a doubt, is the most self-indulgent, unpredictable record of the year so far.
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A good deal of the album (particularly the first half) uses the new-fangled instrumentation sporadically, as an afterthought to a slightly darker version of the duo's time-honored techniques. This is where LP4, though flawlessly produced, is messy.
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LP4 hints at the band's potential. The mildly weirder arrangements and quirkier synth twists on Party With Children are signs of what they should have fully run with.
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LP4 is every bit as unimaginative as its title suggests, picking up quite literally where 2008's lackluster LP3 left off.
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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Oct 26, 2012
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Jan 30, 2011
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