HOUSE PARTY. 27 QUEEN’S AVENUE. SE3. BE SEXY…
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Brad Shoup: Harken, all, to the most dyspeptic dubstep interlude you’ve ever heard!
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Iain Mew: I love how scruffy this is: pop as garage-punk, the synths sounding just as feral as the guitars and Ayumi singing with rawness and an undercurrent of aggression. It probably didn’t need dubstep and circus breakdowns, but there they are.
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Anthony Easton: Pure energy, racing through the speakers like it’s using the sound like a dolphin uses its dorsal fins. Pink, spangled, airtight and out of sight.
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Jonathan Bogart: Hamasaki bends her facility with huge, spacious arrangements into a gonzo texturality that hits me right in my orchestral-pop-loving soul, warping the instruments until they’re as plastic as the surface of a Dance Dance Revolution game.
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Edward Okulicz: I know this is an Ayumi Hamasaki single and, as such, sung in Japanese, but this sounds exactly like it could be a Ukrainian Eurovision entry (and I’m not just saying that as a joke, it really does). Only rather than being an impressive mess, this is just a noisy mess of disjointed, jarring, ugly noises. Its hooks get under my skin, but they don’t draw blood, they just make me itch.
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Alfred Soto: Shakira would do something or other with this. Someone needs to tell her what the something is though.
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