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The combination of old-school melody and post-mod dissonance is risky, bold, and one of the most exciting releases of the year so far.
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Alternative PressGod is an album perfect for daytime iPod consumption--and suitable for keeping the party bumping well after midnight. [Apr 2009, p.142]
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Peppered with hip-hop connections (E-40, Ghostface Killah, Freeway), equally informed by raw Chicago house and the riff-worshipping of Jesse’s previous (DFA 1979), and finally free of the omnipresent vocoder, it’s near-essential stuff.
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MojoJohn Legend phones it in somewhat, and Ghostface Killah makes little sense, but the brain-pummelling tecno that punctuates the latter's profane offerings certainly makes the best of it. [Jul 2009, p.106]
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All in all, passably decent party music, but lacking in the divine touch its title might imply.
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Fist isn't quite a God punch, but it hits with legit impact.
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Fist delivers a gut punch of awesomely distorted synths and raw, kicks-and-snares percussion....But maintaining a fist-pumping pace can be exhausting.
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Despite any pretensions otherwise, their second album sounds a lot like the Day-Glo disco and retro house being pushed by every other hip indie-dance act right now.
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Not a mind-blowing work of art, but expect at least a few more singles to blow up over the next few months.
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Fist of God is very much in step with all the party rage of every other club track album that’s been released in the last year or so--and that’s exactly its problem.
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In a way, this is representative of the album--it's got all the right moves in place, but MSTRKRFT's handle on content is still slightly lagging behind their facility for tone and form.
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Under The RadarDust off your dancing shoes. [Spring 2009, p.79]
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Their second album is a guest-packed party record built from monster beats, churning synths and power chords, and if there's nothing here that Daft Punk haven't done before, it wins points for sheer muscular euphoria.
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Q MagazineOverall this is splendid nonsense. [Jul 2009, p.128]
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MSTRKRFT keep things bouncing, but they never match Daft Punk or Justice on the hook or cleverness quotient.
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Fist of God is surprisingly decent if you can manage to divorce it from its lame context.
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'Heartbreaker' is a great song--musical, dance-y, poppy, and interesting--that puts the other artists-in-residence to shame. All the rest is jogging music.
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FilterListening to this record, made me feel like the Andy Rooney of dance/electronic music. [Winter 2009, p.92]
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All the charm and fun to be found of "Looks" ends up being pulverized by this bland ambition, and Fist of God ends up being just a loud, inspiration-free, truly disappointing dance album that fails to capture ears or move feet.
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MSTRKRFT make a racket that's impressive at first but eventually the echoes of it return to bite them.
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It’s all so cold and empty and irritating.
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In a genre filled with faceless artists, MSTRKRFT only manage to stand out by being exceptionally faceless.
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YoureWrongImRightJul 23, 2009
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BlakeBJul 5, 2009Classic electronic album. Runs circles around "Cross."