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Jul 12, 2012As with Graceland, it's not scared to be too pop... plus the lyrics are of a sounder political hue than anything Simon essayed.
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Jul 20, 2012A slam-bang dance pop album of the first order, MTMTMK is technically an Africa-meets-Western-pop hybrid.
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Sep 11, 2012Simply put, tMTMTMK is what music sounds like when it works.
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Jul 17, 2012MTMTMK is infinitely more fascinating when it's pushing the envelope, mixing weirdness and darkness into the radiant multi-culti stew.
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Q MagazineAug 2, 2012MTMTMK is even more propulsive than their debut. From Kondaine's digitised kwassa kwassa to the deep-house swell of Rudeboy and Mghetto's dub throb, it thumps with worldly street rhythms. [Aug 2012, p.110]
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Jul 19, 2012Producer Karlberg also has expanded his reach and grip, snatching sounds from all over and re-purposing them to serve Mwamwaya's immaculate, coruscating voice.
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Jul 16, 2012On record, this is a joyous burst of blissed-out world pop.
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Jul 16, 2012'MTMTMK' may not quite carry the same dazzling shock of hearing something truly different in the way their debut did but it is certainly an album that carries on the spirit of the debut while progressing their sound at the same time.
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Jul 13, 2012A jubilant collection.
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Jul 11, 2012Creative and fascinating.
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Jul 17, 2012For the most part, MTMTMK chugs along merrily, creating a global dance party that's nearly impossible not to enjoy.
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Jul 11, 2012There's nothing particularly revolutionary about their sunny dance party, but in this One World, One Spotify Playlist age, it feels like a sign of the times.
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Jul 19, 2012MTMTMK is more satisfying [than debut, Warm heart of Africa], but it's still a bit overworked in ways that undercut its strengths.
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Jul 18, 2012It dabbles in the kind of commercial electropop that's coming up all over the continent--but it costs the band some of its earlier warmth and subtlety.
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UncutJul 17, 2012The follow-up [to 2009's Warm Heart Of Africa] is similarly energetic and eclectic. [Aug 2012, p.83]
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Jul 17, 2012The slinky electric guitar, complex rhythms, mix of languages, and shimmery dance jam mentality wrap things up perfectly, lines blurred in the interest of the world's best party.
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Jul 16, 2012They haven't lost their uplifting positivity or their restlessly inventive production spirit--they just seem to be missing a bit of that Warm Heart.
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Jul 16, 2012MTMTMK is all about neon-soaked city raving, and the result is a stiffer, uglier and over-Westernised sound, too reliant on soulless computerisation.
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Jul 11, 2012While it might not possess the anodyne lyrics of generic chart mush, the similarities are disturbingly discernible. Thankfully, such moments are in the minority.
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Under The RadarAug 22, 2012While the album isn't as initially thrilling as their debut, it's a grower that handily avoids the sophomore slump via its sheer soulful elan. [Aug/Sep 2012, p.121]
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Aug 2, 2012On MTMTMK, the duo moves through a range of global sounds, from Congolese kwassa kwassa to reggaeton to electro house.
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Jul 31, 2012MTMTMK dispels doubts, improving on the debut with bigger hooks.
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Jul 16, 2012The partnership [Afro-Euro balance] is more complicated and less satisfying.
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Jul 16, 2012Their second still bears that warmth and immediacy ... but the decision to supercharge so many tracks with clubbier beats – in other words, to make them sound a lot more like the rest of the charts – is disappointing.
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MojoJul 19, 2012It seems more about Africa's love affair with US urbana, and so less endearing. [Aug 2012, p.94]
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Jul 11, 2012Decidedly un-fun... Stuffed with manufactured Euro-pop, stale preset beats, Auto-Tuned vocals, and other assorted fallbacks, the album lacks both the harmonic precision and jubilant, vista-inspired mood that defined Mwamwaya's modern rendition of Malawi music on Warm Heart of Africa.