The Looks
by MSTRKRFT
User Score
5.9

Mixed or average reviews- based on 19 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 19
  3. Negative: 5 out of 19

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  1. lucasp
    Aug 18, 2006
    1
    anyone listening to this record with a previous interest in dance music (ie not the kids hitching along with the vice records/dfa 1979 bandwagon, who will love it without reserve) will see through its gloss (and liberal slathering of incessant vocoders) as the cheap 80s retro-cool cash in it is.
  2. ThomasC
    Sep 5, 2006
    2
    Boring.
  3. CrunkTastik
    Aug 24, 2006
    1
    Word to lucas p; this record blows chunks. This is everything terrible about dance music. I find it hard to believe that someone who has any knowledge or passion about dance music made this bloated pile of vocoder drenched crap. DFA 1979 was brilliant, cheesy but still passionate and great. This record is nothing but a cash-grab and a big FU to artists that are making exciting, relevent Word to lucas p; this record blows chunks. This is everything terrible about dance music. I find it hard to believe that someone who has any knowledge or passion about dance music made this bloated pile of vocoder drenched crap. DFA 1979 was brilliant, cheesy but still passionate and great. This record is nothing but a cash-grab and a big FU to artists that are making exciting, relevent dance music… Expand
  4. ptowns
    Sep 17, 2006
    2
    I love the remixes these guys do and love DFA79, but this album is just... not good.

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Metascore
62

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Alternative Press
    60
    Sweaty and thick, convincingly urgent and highly sexual. [Jul 2006, p.210]
  2. NOW Magazine
    80
    True, there's a pop sensibility at work here that betrays their band roots, but that's exactly what makes this the kind of dance album you can actually listen to from beginning to end.
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  3. Pitchfork
    59
    Keeler succeeds in meticulously reconstructing the electronic music he clearly has a taste for, but without stirring in any of his own personality the songs do little more than run in place, joylessly hitting the marks without changing the rules in any meaningful or attention-grabbing way.
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