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Junkie XL - Booming Back At You
| Billboard |
| Before, Junkie XL was best-known for an Elvis Presley remix that made it into some commercials and a bunch of adrenaline music for videogames. But his fifth album puts the Dutchman in the company of the Chemical Brothers, Basement Jaxx and Paul Oakenfold: those rare dance producers who have the artistic fortitude to create a fully realized, addictive long-player. "Booming" still sounds like music to machine-gun an alien attacker by, but with the subcultural electricity of a guy who's played a packed Los Angeles nightclub or two, in the current, rock-happy decade....full text |
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| Allmusic |
| It's hard to figure out what's more delicious, the idea of Junkie XL being the flagship artist of Artwerk -- the label launched by video game giant Electronic Arts -- or the shameless cover of "Cities in Dust" included on Booming Back at You, the dance producer's debut for the label. The latter takes Siouxsie and the Banshees' goth rock tale of ancient Pompeii residents being smothered in lava and turns it into a whip-cracking floor-filler with a booming drumbeat and vocalist Lauren Rocket replacing Siouxsie's ironic "my friend" with a kick-ass "yeah!" If that sounds dreadful, you probably won't like the other highlight with Rocket, "More," where the singer rallies all hedonists with "Rock more/Roll more/Fuck more/Pac-Man is loving it....full text |
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| Urb |
| This holiday season, someone quietly released a compilation entitled Guido Anthems, which featured three clenched fists in front of an Italian flag on its cover. Junkie XL isn’t Italian, he’s Dutch. But the opening track to his newest long-player, “Booming Right At You,” would fit perfectly. Such is what we’ve come to expect from the producer who came to prominence when his remix of Elvis's “A Little Less Conversation” for a Nike ad became an unexpected hit (and the only techno CD single ever sold next to the register at Rite Aid)....full text |
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