Review: MSTRKRFT - Fist of God
- May 01, 2009
Following Canadian dance-punks Death From Above 1979's untimely demise of 2006 the only stone not washed away by their sea of conflict was that album sleeve that coated their seminal You're a Woman, I'm a Machine record. However the death disco contained within served as something of a blueprint for Jesse F. Keeler's vowel-neglecting debut, The Looks. Not only were the 80s back on the retro menu but the cowbell was back and for a Canadian noise monger with no hidden ability behind 12" decks The Looks rivalled Justice's rehash of crunching synths and vocoded nonsense. And, gasp, came a year earlier when the francophones had a single commercial remix to their name. Fist of God can hardly be said to stray into the realms of genre-busting revolution but 1,000 Cigarettes sounds like Daft Punk with a dizzying nicotine head rush whilst Vuvuvu accelerates the senses and goes some way to revealing what it feels like to become the velocity dial on a Ferrari dashboard.
Then of course come the guests. And whilst Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay roped in fellow Parisian and vulgar socialite Uffie for their debut record "â ", Keeler and fellow disco trasher Al-P have pulled out the stops. And then some. Billing their second outing as a DJ set in a tin as it were, there's more drops than a BMX freestyle through the Grand Canyon. Synthetic cymbals straddle impeccable voiceovers from godmother of 90s Americana rap Lil' Mo (It Ain't Love), a siren-crazed scuffed up electro breaks burner scrawled all over by Ghostface Killer (Word Up) and dancefloor destroyer Heartbreak, featuring the swanky smooth John Legend and his pristine ivory capabilities. This year's We Are Your Friends? We'll see but it's a divine 3 minutes 13 seconds to behold. If God's fist were to hit as hard as MSTRKRFT would have you believe, get to your nearest Church come Sunday. And then grab Fist of God on Monday 1st June. 8/10.
MSTRKRFT's Fist of God will be released 1st June through Geffen.
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