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“A dark but positive electronic record, like the Blade Runner score if Roy Batty kept on killing.”
- Bleep
“…have been hailed as the “hottest new metal band” by Hustler journalist Keith Valcourt, a phrase mostly bandied about to give a lil’ journalistic kudos to game-changers and ground-breakers, but in this instance we can safely presume that Valcourt actually meant they were hot, as in bangin’”
“I felt his lyrics were lame and pandering to us gamers and other assorted nerd fans. You’re not good enough to pander to me. Better luck next time.”
“Alright, so pop music is going through a rum period at the moment. I for one am battening down my hatches and waiting for the storm of Eurobeat and Autotune to pass, rather than dishonestly pretending I embrace poptimism in 2012. Frank Ocean’s new one is certainly a glimmer of hope on the horizon, but in the interim, I don’t need this empty, vacuous, alternative pap music.”
“While pop is currently in the golden age of exacting self-reflection— an often beguiling phenomenon spurred on by the internet’s infinite mirror— Ocean is interested in a more selfless pursuit.”
“And though as of yet Jackin doesn’t have a sound all of its own, there’s no reason that it can’t develop one.”
“An electronic music rave in America now is like a Limp Bizkit concert 10 years ago. If you listen to a Skrillex set, it’s basically just an orgasmic reaction every three minutes.”
- Martyn
“I remain skeptical of those who would have us believe that Jay-Z and West make revolutionary art.”
“Your garden variety electronic music aficionado treats breakcore as a bad dream that everybody thankfully managed to wake up from halfway through the last decade.”
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