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Michaelangelo Matos: Oh good Christ. I would not want to be a teenager right now.
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Alfred Soto: “Let me hear the bass,” the robo-voice intones. I’m still waiting to hear it.
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Jonathan Bogart: Oh, good, dubstep has talentless yobs too.
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Martin Skidmore: I’m not sure whether this is dubstep, exactly: whatever, there’s a chugging, grinding bassline, skittering beats and soulful male vocals, and it’s all played with some force and drama. I like it.
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Jer Fairall: Physically uncomfortable to listen to and thus impossible to discuss in any terms beyond the sheer unpleasantness of its graceless stadium-sized beats, hilariously inappropriate title and lyrics (they’re “making real music,” you see), that grinding electro-belch that repeats throughout and the especially cruel moment where it fades to a brief silence and then fades back in again, refusing to end. Which, I guess, is all that really needs to be said about this.
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Katherine St Asaph: Call me old-fashioned, but I’m pretty sure you lose your right to sing about bringing back Real Music when your chorus is built around heavily vocodered belching. But the twitching-apart percussion and frantic, three-too-many arpeggiating have got to sound amazing at the right stage of night, when it’s late enough that the music isn’t persuading you to dance so much as shoving you someplace, toward some sort of ending.
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David Katz: A deranged hybrid of commercial dubstep and “One More Time”, right down to the yearning male-diva vocal and filter breakdown. I can guarantee this sounds utterly huge five drinks in, panting by the club speakers; no danger of fobbing off the dancefloor here. But in any other context, it’s blaringly unsubtle and rather exasperating.
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Iain Mew: “Making real music that may not be everyone’s taste” apparently, but it doesn’t sound like some grand statement of intent and non-compromise so much as an open acknowledgement that they aren’t all that. As such they have the most descriptive band name ever – they’re a bit modish and a bit dubstep, and they’ve released a modest EP.
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