You are awesome. We get it.
Even if you have pretty much one synth sound that you've ridden and abused to all hell- it's fine, because it sounds suitably bad-ass.
Even if your style is so easily triangulated as to be discernible in any remix or collaboration almost instantly, it's not a problem.
You've never pretended to be anything other then an awesome dance party, and you've fulfilled that role to the tee. When you came out, saying all this shit about trying to rescue the dance floor, we might have thought that was a bit ballsy, but you delivered.
I'll admit- I worshiped at the altar of Death From Above 1979. When that band broke up, I devoured anything and everything you put out as soon as it was available. I was driving around town blasting your shit before you'd even released Paris, when you were just a few remixes and maybe the hint of a future EP.
And now you've put out 'Fist Of God'...and it's more of the same. But that's actually not that bad part- I'd be totally fine with that. Your music is awesome. It's your vocals I can't stand.
Seriously, nearly every song on this album has been ruined by some middling singer/rapper spewing out terrible shit over the music. At least with your debut, the ratio of excellent to irritating was limited to "She's Good For Business".
The other songs were awesome. The quirky vocoding, the hypersexual and campy lyrics- they didn't detract a bit from the sheer skull-fucking dance madness that is your music.
But...what's going on? What's happened to you? YOU HAVE A SONG ABOUT TWO GUYS WATCHING EACH OTHER SHIT AND PISS!
That's not cool. That's not sexy. It doesn't make me want to dance. It makes me want to clean my face.
Yes, 'Bounce' is probably one of the best party songs ever. But still...if you step back and actually listen to what Nore is saying, it amounts to some variation on "I'm Nore, You're MSTRKRFT, We party." Maybe that's good enough for you. For that song, it probably is. I'm not going to complain about that song. I haven't been able to get it out of my heads for months.
But, your collaborations with 'Jahmal of the Carp' sound like bad disco/soul, mostly because that's what that guy is wailing.
You make the excellent 'Click Click' and then let E-40 shit all over all the best parts.
You collaborate with Ghostface Killah...and then proceed to make a song where HE DOESN'T RAP.
That is what he does. That is why he is famous. I was stoked for this song...until I actually heard it. Thats like inviting Frank Lloyd Wright over to design a birdhouse, or calling up Picasso because you made a scuff on your bedroom wall and wanted to paint over it.
In summation- What the hell, man? You're still MSTRKRFT, and still awesome, and I'm still going to put this CD on any playlist relating to anything involving motion, but, you know, I can't help but feel like we're growing a bit apart.
People change, I know. I just wish you hadn't changed into such a drunken frat party.
Sincerely,
Me.
PS. Having looked over the lyrics for 1000 Cigarettes, I realize that it's not about two guys watching each other 'shit and piss', but about him watching hot chicks go to the bathroom in his house while he spies on them and does the same.
I was wrong, but I'm still speechless.