You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into
Almost Gold - Almost Gold
Does It Offend You Yeah?
Release date: 2008-04-15
Audio CD
Alternative Dance, Dance-Rock, England, Indie Electronic, Indie Rock, New Wave/Post-Punk Revival, Pop, Pop/Rock Music, Rock, Rock/Pop
1. Battle Royale
2. With a Heavy Heart (I Regret To Inform You)
3. We Are Rockstars
4. Dawn of the Dead
5. Doomed Now
6. Attack of the 60ft Lesbian Octopus
7. Let's Make Out
8. Being Bad Feels Pretty Good
9. Weird Science
10. Epic Last Song
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You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into
Date undefinedSon totalmente congruentes con su portada, es asqueroso, es intrépido, es como para ir en una camioneta y arrojar huevos a la casa del que te cae mal, para tirarte un clavado sin haber medido la profundidad del agua, es volver a agarrarte a golpes por una exnovia, es reunirte con tus amigos a grabar un jackass amateur, es arruinar XV años, tomar desmedidamente y fumar como desesperado.
Es su disco debut, se llama You have no idea what you're getting yourself into (Virgin Records/Almost Gold, 2008) y aquí les pongo el "track x track".
Battle royale, acaba de empezar y la verdad no entiendes lo que pasa hay mucho procesador, mucho Daft Punk. En With a heavy heart se ponen groseros, sacan su cara atrevida y avanzan a We are rockstars que es el sencillo y la verdad es muy fácil de escuchar, buena elección. Dawn of the dead tiene un acercamiento al pop, es mi parte favorita del disco, y... ¿es calypso lo que se escucha en el fondo? Doomed now esta inundada de vocoders y un ritmo basado en los contras del platillo que es la fórmula ya por todos conocida que obliga a saltar. El Attack of the 60 ft lesbian octopus es mas velocidad, mas histeria y de verdad puedes casi imaginarlo. Let's make out. una historia de acariciar a tu pareja por debajo de la mesa, no les importa lo que pienses... a moverse! Being bad feels pretty good esta encaminada por el trazo de The Killers, The Bravery y hasta Modest Mouse, le bajan dos rayitas al volumen y demuestran que también pueden hacer letras que tengan sentido. Weird science es una piecita instrumental que tiene madera de sencillo (¿cómo logran ésto?), luciendo todos los dedos en el sampler. Para el final, en Epic last song esperaba que terminaran con ruido, con velocidad, con vómito, pero sacan un guantecito de algodón y con el dorso me abofetean, la explosión la guardan para la presentación en vivo.
La crítica especializada los ubicó en el género del New Rave, justo atrás de los Klaxons y de la mano de Management, pero a mi estos 38.5 minutos me hicieron sentir "chavo" y me dejaron en la boca un muy buen sabor a punk.
You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into
Date undefinedI have to say, I can't stop listening to "Dawn of the Dead"...just utterly catchy and puts you in a great mood. They sound like Killers plus Daft Punk. Buy this album just for this song alone.
You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into
Date undefinedIf you didn't know better, "Does It Offend You, Yeah" would be incredibly impressive. As it stands, they're fundamentally derivative copying a range of what passes as "indie" these days. Oh yeah, and it's also insanely catchy and fun. I can forgive them their unoriginality because they do it so well. The perfect example is "With A Heavy Heart" - a tune that is so rocking it nearly makes your head explode. It starts with a bang, builds to a frenzy, and keeps things crazy.
A couple tracks sound a little like Justice, while a couple others borrow more than a little from M83. The thing is, there's a difference between reflecting the state of popular music as you see it, and borrowing to compensate for not really having a sound of your own. Since this is their first CD, I won't be too hard on "DIOYY". From this CD, I'm not yet convinced that they have a sound of their own. When they put out a second CD, then we'll see if there are any stylistic consistencies.
In the end, none of this matters all that much because the music is just so fun. If you like rock mixed with electro and a sort of indie vibe, you'll find this fun, even if it's not the most ground-breaking CD out there.
Originality - **1/2 (2.5 stars)
Fun factor - ***** (5 stars)
Overall - ***3/4 (3.75 stars)
