Classics
Not since a grade 5 music recital have we been subjected to an instrumental, and although this is probably not a good point of comparison CLASSICS, the second album from Brooklyn’s Ratatat is much less painful, with an intensity and maturity that 11 year olds simply couldn’t achieve.
While CLASSICS may not have a track that compares with their attentiongrabbing ‘Seventeen Years’ the album is still an articulate response tothe hyphen-saturated-world-where-subtlety-is-a-dying-art. Many of thetracks could host vocals yet are dressed down (no headbands here) witha modesty that the title of the album doesn’t suggest.
In keeping with Evan Mast and Mike Stroud’s programming backgrounds, CLASSICS has samples, layers and instruments a-plenty. The tracks may grate at times in an awkward middle-ground between anthem and atmospheric, but overall the flow of the album makes it to the big city what Múm’s FINALLY WE ARE NO ONE is to the country. That’s a big call, but you know what we mean.
By Jan Bunny
Release: Album
To Cure: Hypertension
Keywords: New York, Bands, Dance, Electronica, DJs
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