Talk About Body
by MEN
  • Record Label: Iamsound
  • Release Date: Feb 1, 2011
Metascore
65

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
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  1. The Guardian
    Feb 11, 2011
    80
    MEN's debut is one of the best of the year. Or, at least, the best of the niche area where gender politics and dance music intersect.
  2. Uncut
    Feb 8, 2011
    80
    This Brooklyn-based trio make hedonistic dance-pop with brainy-sexy lyrics informed by gender politics, third-wave feminism and Queer Theory. [Feb 2011, p.90]
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  3. BBC Music
    Feb 2, 2011
    80
    Talk About Body is a long, long way from the oblique post-shoegaze blur of chillwave, witch house, ill-bient and experimental dubstep at the cutting edge of the alternative.
  5. No Ripcord
    Feb 2, 2011
    80
    When an album's main faults are that its too upbeat and lyrically too ambitious, it really is one that deserves to be talked about.
  6. Los Angeles Times
    Feb 2, 2011
    75
    Whatever it might lack in inventiveness, MEN makes up for with a smart, detailed comprehension of dance floor dynamics: the tension of the build and the satisfaction of the release.
  7. AllMusic
    Dec 19, 2011
    70
    A firebrand debut album, Talk About Body celebrates the struggle and freedom in defying easy classification.
  8. The New York Times
    Feb 14, 2011
    70
    Talk About Body, the band's first album, sounds alternative, but not off to the side; it's not the greatest record you'll hear this year, but it's pretty remarkable as a political and musical polemic.
  9. Drowned In Sound
    Feb 11, 2011
    70
    Talk About Body is so ridiculously accessible musically, that audiences dancing along to MEN's absurdly addictive pop songs are likely to be blindsided if they ever listen carefully to the lyrics.
  10. Under The Radar
    Mar 23, 2011
    60
    Though it's a bit longwinded, activism and dance music collide on Talk About Body, which is a fiery and totally irresistible combination. [Feb. 2011, p. 71]
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  11. Clash Music
    Feb 7, 2011
    60
    The repetitive beats and seemingly endless loops become, on the whole, tired and tedious too soon.
  12. Q Magazine
    Feb 2, 2011
    60
    Long-awaited debut from the sweary Brooklyn collective. [Feb. 2011, p. 120]
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  13. Pitchfork
    Feb 2, 2011
    41
    If Samson's voice had the full-blooded verve of her old bandmate Hanna, she might be able to sell this stuff. Instead, she delivers all the album's lyrics in the same flat monotone, and she just sounds bored the whole time.
  14. Mojo
    Apr 20, 2011
    40
    Brooklyn collective with ex-Le Tigre members party like its 2003. [Feb. 2011, p. 107]
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  15. NOW Magazine
    Mar 14, 2011
    40
    Sadly, Talk About Body has the flat, dated electro-pop sound of Le Tigre, who are still a few years away from needing a rebirth.

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