Categories : Electronica, Music Reviews.
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Rating: 2 / 5 Reviewer: Louis Ducharme |
The Pinker Tones’ latest album, Wild Animals, is weird, but starts off promisingly enough with ‘Hold On,’ a decent dance-pop track with some chorus singing flourishes. The next track starts the decline, though. ‘S.E.X.Y.R.O.B.O.T.,’ is a skipable techno song,, then, ‘The Whistling Song’ sounds like an aggravating Sesame Street sing-along. ‘Electrotumbao’ sounds like a failed attempt at Latin rhythms, which is odd considering these guys are from Spain.
The album is not all bad; it does have some good moments. For example, ‘Fugaz’ is awesome and ‘Happy Everywhere’ is a pretty good song. The English chorus of ‘On Se Promenait’ will have you humming along, but the French verses leave much to be desired. ‘Working Bees’ is layered with excellent horn work and scratching, but the grating vocals make it virtually unlistenable.
The Pinker Tones are working with a lot of different elements here. For example, the aforementioned ‘Working Bees’ has break-beats and record scratching; ‘Let’s Go’ has some melodic acoustic guitar; ‘24’ has horns and a lot of tambourine; ‘Biorganized’ has more chorus work, and a cool sounding electric piano solo, and it concludes with some weird, almost tribal sounding screeches. They even delve into French and German vocals.
It’s great that the Pinker Tones want to try a bunch of different things, but it seems like they jump from one idea to the next too quickly, without really giving each idea the time it deserves.
