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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Never Step on Their Mystique, 16 Feb 2004
This is a magnificent record. Out Hud are perhaps best known now for including two members of the increasingly hyped !!!, but they stand apart as a band in their own right, distinctive from that related group whilst retaining some of thier stylistic similarities. In short, Out Hud are the more 'serious' band, a more cerebral take on the troublesome 'punk-funk' terrain than their cousins. In this way, they (unwittingly perhaps) provide an unexpected bridge between the two most recently dominant paradigms of leftfield indie music - Tortoise's post-rock and The Rapture's PiL/house flavoured grooves.They accomplish this task with unnerving confidence, taking sped-up On-U rhythms and marrying them to all kinds of interlocking guitar, cello and keyboard tunes that neevr stay in one place. Sometimes, as on "Hair Dude, You're Stepping on My Mystique" the music changes tempo with all the dynamism of Slint; others, particularly "Dad, There's a little Phrase Called Too Much Information" tie themselves to a mroe consistent groove. It is never less than brilliant and never less than unique.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Acid funk, 26 Jul 2004
Out Hud is a fearlessly imaginative and unusual clash of post-rock, funk, acid, electro and house. Often sounding freeform but nevertheless packed with complexities, each track is an instrumental journey full of stylistic twists and turns - none least 'L Train Is a Swell Train and I Don't Want to Hear You Indies Complain', a 12-minute acid-funk opus that evolves seamlessly through several unlikely genres. Don't let the wacky titles put you off, Out Hud are the collective you long to see live - irreverent, funky, seismic. Industrial-strength drumming competes with shuffling electro rythmns, violins interwine with jazzy keyboars, old-school acid synths battle against post-punk guitar - I shouldn't work but it does.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
hip hop breaks and electronic punk that really shouldnt work, 13 Dec 2004
so im one of those people who doesnt do hip hop/rap and all thhe other stuff combined into that genre. yet, this is something else totally...apparently this is a few members from !!! and a bunch of other people, so with that youcan, or at least should be able to imagine that this is immensly dancable... and hell it is! this is my first listen, and reading the garb on the back of the pomo, i honestly wasnt expecting this.opening with the intense 'story of the whole thing' it sounds relativly cool and chilled out. which in a way i guess it is, but instantly the next track grabs you by the throat with its pounding techno breakbeat that just explodes and breaksdown almost at random throught the length of the track. its stunning and so funky, something you wouldnt nececerrily associate with kranky. throught the album there is snippets of violin and piano, which i found sometimes slightly annoying, but then its totally different to what i would have expected, so lets go with the flow. and now the noise has just broken out...and gone again...there is so much going on throught this album it feels slightly hard to keep up with. its not your ordinary punk rock album thats for sure. to be honest though, as im listening to this im getting a little bored...some tracks seem to merge into each other...doesnt feel like an album to sit and listen to, mayeb it isnt, or maybe its just me. for djing and car driving maybe...but i cant honestly say i want to carry on listening to each of the six songs on the album. hip as it this is...its not me for sure. its good, but not that good. and to be honest, i think im getting a little confused with all these samples and sounds....
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