Normally I’d write some sort of clever and/or snarky intro to these folks, but I really can’t outdo “BIG DATA is a paranoid electronic music project from the Internet”…
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Mark Sinker: The Matrix ft. Ross Geller as Neo.
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David Sheffieck: “Joywave” sounds like someone tried to update “joycore” from a decade-back blog era, and “Dangerous” sounds like whatever they’re attempting failed miserably. Shrill and mechanical, there’s nothing the least bit joyful about this song – and I’d feel guilty for fixating on the misnomer except there’s seemingly nothing else it has to offer. Admittedly, my college radio station that loved Dandy Warhols’ turn toward irrelevancy would’ve played the hell outta this.
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Patrick St. Michel: Imagine a jittery Phoenix singing vaguely about government surveillance. Imagine a solid enough groove backed by lyrics that in theory should be interesting but in execution feel too pleased with themselves (“get it, we are talking about computers”). Imagine this song with a minute and a half cut off.
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Thomas Inskeep: They think they’re Phoenix. They’re not.
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Josh Love: Hits the same sweet spot as Phantogram’s “Fall in Love” or SOHN’s “Artifice” for me — a faceless artist catching hold of a nice, meaty groove.
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Brad Shoup: I hear Win Butler’s voice in spots, and there’s a boast on the chorus no one believes. But the bass is filthy and the groove legit, so this must be the real deal.
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Anthony Easton: This does some nice tricks with the vocals, but I am not sure to what end. It isn’t exactly repetitive, but it seems unambitious.
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Megan Harrington: You dudes do realize that you’ve created content to be shared via Google and Facebook and sold by Apple, right? You know that “Dangerous” is nothing but a Trojan horse for corporations to add your listeners to their own big data matrices, right? And so you’d agree with my assessment that this trifle is nothing but highly ironic sighing, right?
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Will Adams: There is no you, there is only watered down Nine Inch Nails.
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Katherine St Asaph: God, why does every bro with a modicum of awareness of tech and surveillance suddenly think he’s Julian Assange? The lyrics are paranoid but but hardly polemic; if anti-surveillance is really what people are responding to here, let’s replace three-quarters of its rock airplay with The Future’s Void. The video is yet another disingenuous instance of social-commentary-via-showing-viewers-boobs (as in, there’s a point where someone writes “BOOBS” on a whiteboard, in case you think I’m reading anything into anything). As a dance-rock song, “Dangerous” is fine and probably refreshing on the radio. As anything else, it’s ridiculous.
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