Ratatat - LP3
Ratatat are New Yorkers Evan Mast and Mike Stroud. So far (in their previous two albums) they have offered electronic music with a twist (a more rock sound that is). However, for their upcoming third album LP3 (up for release July 8), they have chosen to experiment even further with more ethnic/world sounds. If anything, I’m always in favor of bands not choosing to go the easy way and and engage on new territory. However, in the case of LP3, this has gone terribly wrong.
Their new style blends western electro beats with drum machines and reggae influences with Arabian rhythms. In some songs it kind of works (as in Imperials) and in others it fails miserably, to the extent of plain parody (such as in Gipsy Threat). Perhaps to a more western audience across the Atlantic, this may seem kind of adventurous in a sense, but for the rest of the world it can only be treated as amusing. While the first half of the record is barely alright (give it a couple of tries and you may be able to consider it listenable at some point) the remaining half is just plain dull. The other main objection is that it doesn’t have any flow, with tracks experimenting with so many different elements leaving you with very little in the end. This sounds more like a collection of tracks rather than a single album. Who knows, perhaps next time they’ll manage to bring this chaos into a form that makes sense, but until then I’ll just pass this one…
Their new style blends western electro beats with drum machines and reggae influences with Arabian rhythms. In some songs it kind of works (as in Imperials) and in others it fails miserably, to the extent of plain parody (such as in Gipsy Threat). Perhaps to a more western audience across the Atlantic, this may seem kind of adventurous in a sense, but for the rest of the world it can only be treated as amusing. While the first half of the record is barely alright (give it a couple of tries and you may be able to consider it listenable at some point) the remaining half is just plain dull. The other main objection is that it doesn’t have any flow, with tracks experimenting with so many different elements leaving you with very little in the end. This sounds more like a collection of tracks rather than a single album. Who knows, perhaps next time they’ll manage to bring this chaos into a form that makes sense, but until then I’ll just pass this one…
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Imperials
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