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Published: 2011/12/05
VHS or Beta: Diamonds and Death
Chromosome/Krian Music Group
There were hints of an electronic DJ duo trying to break out of a dance-rock shell on VHS or Beta’s last album; four years later, they’ve made good on the promise. Co-produced by Mocean Worker (aka Adam Dorn)—whose deep cache of programmed music draws from drum-and-bass, breakbeat and soul-jazz with a Fatboy Slim-like sense of the epic— Diamonds and Death sounds big and boisterous, but still hews closely to the lo-fi hipster aesthetic that band members Craig Pfunder and Mark Palgy adopted when moving to Brooklyn in 2009. It doesn’t always click—“Eyes” pulses in a compelling Last Days of Disco style, while “Under the Sun” plods through retro-house clichés—but Pfunder gives it his all on the mic, and that goes a long way.
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