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The debut album from Reading electro-punks Does It Offend You Yeah? slots neatly into the slipstream behind fellow rave/rock fusioneers The Klaxons and Justice, an energetic splicing of bratty vocals, ribcage-quaking synthesisers, choppy rhythms--and occasionally, a few ideas that are all their own. So, while the opening trio of tracks aim mostly to bludgeon in a Justice style--"We Are Rockstars" hitches tapped cowbell and pneumatic beats to keyboard riffs that buzz like angry wasps--a little further in, DIOYY? tone down the technological assault and stretch their songwriting muscles. "Let's Make Out" is snotty in a faintly dislikable way, like the caddish male answer to Reverend And the Makers' "He Said He Loved Me". A couple of tracks prove they've got hearts under all the bravado, though: "Being Bad Feels Pretty Good" and "Dawn of the Dead" are anthemic electro-pop in the vein of mid-period Human League, complete with very '80s live bass and curiously, in the case of the latter, steel drums. --Louis Pattison
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If the doomed youth are binge drinking anti-intellectuals staggering around in stupid neon clothes, then Does It Offend You, Yeah? are another nail in their coffin. You Don't Know What You're Getting Yourself Into is the soundtrack to self-stupefaction, gorging on abrasive atonal electro clashes and intoxicated with its own sense of inaccessibility. Yet it's so gratifyingly braindead that it's impossible not to screech along in nihilistic glee.
This Reading-London assemblage describe their sound as being ''like an arcade machine thrown into a lake'', and we find them merrily splashing about in the same gene pool as Hadouken!, Late Of The Pier, and Crystal Castles. Their debut typifies a gratuitous embrace of surface sported by our achingly hip youth. No doubt if you listen hard to any episode of Skins, DIOYY will be blasting the poignancy out of a moment of emotional tenderness. It's all zeitgeisty din; an acerbic retort to the inheritance of a world living on borrowed time. With MySpace sponsoring this generation's existential angst, shrieking into the abyss via vocoder makes perfect sense. Featuring the aphorism ''will you find a time / when you're not online / standing all alone'', We Are Rockstars does just this - with synths on.
Like a Primark hoodie, it's immaterial whether this record will be remembered fondly in six months. Its resolute immediacy is its cheap thrill. Instrumental wig outs, Battle Royale and Weird Science, are explicit tributes to Daft Punk but without distractions of Gallic flair - this is simply quick and dirty, delicious noise. 60ft Octopus is like deranged squid juggling metal, electro and a DVD of Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers. At regular intervals one despairs at this industrial scale ear assault performed by sneering idiots. A bleep of a synth later though and you're lifted up into a destructive high, convinced this is post-everything genius. To paraphrase George Orwell, if you want a vision of the present, imagine a man named Morgan Yeah screaming ''Let's Make Out'' in a human face. But it won't be forever - so just suck it up and deal with it, yeah? --Sophie Hammer
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I originally saw this band at Reading Festival and they blew my socks off. I got home, and immediatly brought the album.
To hear the tracks that I had gone crazy to live, Doomed Now, Lets Make Out, Rockstars to name a few are just as crisp, and are truely Rock and Dance crossed over in genius fasion
Where this album faulters, is the Jekyll and Hyde like faces of this Album. The one side is the Rocking tracks, the other are the more sombre (not slow) tracks, which sound kinda similar, Making you wonder, did they run out of ideas? I hope not, as they really are a cracking new british band.
To hear the tracks that I had gone crazy to live, Doomed Now, Lets Make Out, Rockstars to name a few are just as crisp, and are truely Rock and Dance crossed over in genius fasion
Where this album faulters, is the Jekyll and Hyde like faces of this Album. The one side is the Rocking tracks, the other are the more sombre (not slow) tracks, which sound kinda similar, Making you wonder, did they run out of ideas? I hope not, as they really are a cracking new british band.
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Truly original. Listen for yourself. Buy it. Love it. Done deal. Keenly awaiting the new album
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First of all, can I just repeat the message - if you get a chance to see them live, go! They turn up on stage looking 19, with hoodies, keyboards, guitars etc and just bring so much energy. Blew me away.
Anyway, the album is a bit of a mix. You've got nu-rave electronic mash ups like Battle Royal, We Are Rockstars and Let's Make Out, which are just great. Air meets Chemical Brothers meets Prodigy. Guitars, decks, samples, effects all over the vocals. Inventive, fresh, just exciting new music. Beating the Klaxons out of sight. And then you've got boy band pop punk tunes like Dawn of the Dead and Being Bad. It's an odd mix. An identity crisis being played out on record. Most of it is really good but the odd couple of tunes just don't fit, and are a bit lame really, imho.
I just hope that they go the hardcore route and don't sell out.
Oh, and go see them live. :)
Anyway, the album is a bit of a mix. You've got nu-rave electronic mash ups like Battle Royal, We Are Rockstars and Let's Make Out, which are just great. Air meets Chemical Brothers meets Prodigy. Guitars, decks, samples, effects all over the vocals. Inventive, fresh, just exciting new music. Beating the Klaxons out of sight. And then you've got boy band pop punk tunes like Dawn of the Dead and Being Bad. It's an odd mix. An identity crisis being played out on record. Most of it is really good but the odd couple of tunes just don't fit, and are a bit lame really, imho.
I just hope that they go the hardcore route and don't sell out.
Oh, and go see them live. :)
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Great album
Ignore the daft band name/album title :)
I've been listening to this album for the last 18 months. Still love it.
I've been listening to this album for the last 18 months. Still love it.
Published on 17 Nov 2009 by duffster
wrong = DJ Dave Boring "I'm the Chairman of the Bored"
this is a brilliant electronic rock band and the reason they called the band does it offend you is not because the think their music is offensive it is because they named it after... Read more
Published on 20 Jun 2009 by Liam marney
Keep It Foolish, Yeah?
If we look at offensiveness on a scale of say, 10 for the Holocaust, dropping to maybe a 7 or 8 for child abuse and poverty respectively, with perhaps the collected works of... Read more
Published on 5 Oct 2008 by DJ Dave Boring
DIOF,Y?
For those looking for total electro, avoid getting this alhbum and just buy a few songs of iTunes like 'We Are Rockstars' 'Wierd Science' and 'Attack of the 60ft Lesbian Octapus'... Read more
Published on 15 July 2008 by Mr. M. W. Williams
I knew what I was getting myself into!
Awesome awesome album.
Having downloaded weird science and we are rockstars some time back, i decided that Leeds Fest was the time to finally see them. They were immense. Read more
Having downloaded weird science and we are rockstars some time back, i decided that Leeds Fest was the time to finally see them. They were immense. Read more
Published on 24 April 2008 by The Mews
No Offence
Mr Badger arrived at the cave entrance this afternoon in a state of high agitation. His cousin from Reading had visited earlier in the day bringing with him as a gift a copy of... Read more
Published on 31 Mar 2008 by The Wolf
electro-punks
forget klaxons and hadouken!, this is the real deal.
the best thing I can describe it as is electro-punk, not dissimilar to fat of the land era prodigy, or perhaps some... Read more
the best thing I can describe it as is electro-punk, not dissimilar to fat of the land era prodigy, or perhaps some... Read more
Published on 22 Mar 2008 by J. Bollington
This is the real Nu Rave!
After reading various reviews, I was a little bit worried, but I' so glad I got it anyway! This is pure electro rock gold! The perfect rock version between Daft Punk and Justice. Read more
Published on 21 Mar 2008 by CrazyBlue
good
stupid effin name, they sound like something nathan barley would say and hence would be cool in the capital if we were 3 years prior. Read more
Published on 14 Mar 2008 by kilroy-silk
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