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- Summary: The Portland, Oregon, dance duo's latest album is a concept album about man's search for utopia.
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- Record Label: DFA
- Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock
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| The wind keeps beating on my window I haven't slept all night That drum just keeps on bangin' They must be buzzin' out their minds Like bees in a... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 16 out of 21
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Mixed: 5 out of 21
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Jun 21, 2011It's not the exquisite crispness of Yacht's bass lines that makes Shangri-La so appealing (though that certainly doesn't hurt). Rather, it's the band's knack for giving weighty ideas the lighthearted gift of groove.
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UncutJul 15, 2011Ironic jape or not, Shangri-La captures the DFA label aesthetic perfectly, blending electro post-punk, disco and art-pop with conceptual elan, and icing the cake with dance-friendly production. [Jul 2011, p.103]
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Dec 7, 2011Musically however, Shangri-La keeps things fairly light and upbeat, with plenty of memorable, chanted vocal hooks and a satisfying mixture of live and sequenced instrumentation.
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Jun 21, 2011Shangri-La doesn't do much to breathe fresh life into them [notions of utopia, apocalypse, enlightenment, and true love]. But in its own naïve way, YACHT rejuvenates the scenery in this vision of paradise by casting things in an extremely literal light.
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Jun 30, 2011There's a strong air of the post-punk '80s, and at the same time, the album's driving rhythms make it more DFA-like in spirit, like they're taking up part of the mantle of the now-defunct LCD Soundsystem, perhaps.
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Jul 5, 2011Shangri-La offers more than enough frantic beats, fidgety bass lines, spiky guitar leads, soaring piano riffs, delirious vocal harmonies, and, yes, cowbells to fit in on any house-party playlist.
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Jun 27, 2011It would be alright if they believed this stuff, but it's all done with the detached sneer beloved of hipsters worldwide. They're faux-hippies, not real ones.
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