SOUND team (yeh, kaps are kool), all frantic and smooth, strives for epic, hearty grooves, stealing dance moves from hipsters’ messenger bags and putting it under backwards ballcaps. At its best, Movie Monster churns buttah with a lightning rod, as electropulses bounce around the room like one of those plasma balls with a crack in it. A majority of the album, however, is restrained in non-carbonated rock construction.
Movie Monster’s flaw is that it spans genres of organ rock, dancefunk, and darker grindrock, which all come off as slightly requisite, and don’t combine to form a particularly complete experience. The most compelling achievement is that SOUND team somewhat defines a new, aggressive, frat-synth vibe, which as far as broadening our indie sense of accessbility is concerned, is a worthwhile effort.
This is truly the weirdest review I’ve ever read.
Comment by devon — May 18, 2006 @ 9:32 pm
This is the stupidest fucking review I’ve ever read. Movie Monster is one of the best albums I have heard in a long time. And what is “frat-synth vibe?”
Comment by Stuart C. — May 21, 2006 @ 5:43 am
What exactly makes it one of the best albums you’ve heard in a while?
I can send you better ones, fo sho.
The frat-synth is the power-pop, aggressive, new wave-ish electronics that are everywhere in the album
Comment by chris — May 22, 2006 @ 8:45 am