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Santogold - Santogold
| Avclub | | Me, I'm a creator / thrill is to make it up / the rules I break got me a place up on the radar." Those lyrics—from the M.I.A.-aping track "Creator," off of Santogold's self-titled debut—smack of wearisome indie-hop posturing. But when nestled amid songs that liberally pluck bits from new wave, indie rock, dub, post-punk, and a host of other influences, the boast rings true, and validates Santogold's next-big-thing status. Santogold (a.k.a. songwriter Santi White, who has worked as a hired gun for popsters Lily Allen and Ashlee Simpson) manages to weave together a strange amalgam of tracks that sound almost nothing alike, yet are unmistakably part of the same whole....full text |
| | Popmatters | It was love at first MySpace. One link and there I went. During the first chorus of Santogold’s “Creator” I adopted it as my personal theme song and sent the link to my favorite DJ and my closest friends with the words: “This is my new favorite artist. I have no clue how to describe what she’s doing.”
And maybe love always defies explanation. Santi White reborn in the eclectic sound of Santogold calls her own music “a mash up of all that stuff”. Produced by a crew including snowboarders, electronic and dub-based producers like Squeeze and Diplo and sounding like what happens when London, Jamaica, Brooklyn, Philly and an old school Hindi film soundtrack explode out of a Nintendo set, Santogold’s self-titled first album is ska resurrected, punk retooled, drum and base repossessed and pop reborn. ...full text |
| | Courant | | The Brooklyn singer, songwriter and producer trips lightly through a dizzying array of sounds and styles on the self-titled debut of her latest project, Santogold. White, a Wesleyan graduate, takes the best elements of punk, new wave, dub reggae and electronica and fuses them into an utterly arresting sonic pile-up different from anything else around. No two songs on "Santogold" are alike, yet they fit together to form a cohesive whole like a superlative DJ set in album form....full text |
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