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| Urb |
 Telepathe is a band that, on first impression, appear too cool to possibly be any good. Their debut is produced by the venerable David Sitek, TV on the Radio sonic mastermind and one of New York’s current great authorities on all things cool. Sitek seems to have the Midas touch in bestowing projects with indie cred, giving Telepathe an almost criminal advantage in courting the skinny jean-sporting crowd. Months before its release, I found a worn-out, burned copy of the album at a Los Angeles art gallery, scratched beyond repair presumably from repeat listening. The Brooklyn girl duo’s preference for analog synths, the most fashionably retro-futuristic element of music imaginable, as well as their meticulously half-grungy/half-chic appearance, would elicit dread from any critic put in the position to evaluate the next “next big thing.” However, Telepathe transcend any hype, any preconceptions about whether they’re the “next big thing” or just look and talk like them, with an incredible debut album that transports listeners into a deliriously vibrant and colorful world of its own....full text |
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| Drownedinsound |
Telepathe are from Brooklyn, New York. A lot of really great music is coming out of Brooklyn, New York at the moment. This record, however, lays waste to the idea of a ‘Brooklyn sound’, revealing only a shared mission statement to make great, original sounding music.
One listen to Dance Mother, their debut album, and you can see why Telepathe would have been linked - lazily - to the other popular artists of this region. Immediate comparisons to Yeasayer could be made ('Lights Go Down' steals their keyboard presets and sets them to a disjointed electronic backing with arcade game tics and splatters, and ends up sounding like a modern R’n’B track) as well as TV On The Radio (the band's David Sitek, of course, produced this record). Fellow New Yorkers Gang Gang Dance are also a valid reference point. But with this heady sonic mix, Dance Mother also proves to be a pop calling-card....full text |
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| Boston |
| The guitars chime and the drums pound furiously, so it must be TV on the Radio. Synthesizers burble and echo, so it must be the Knife. As it turns out, it's both and neither. Two-piece Brooklyn outfit Telepathe enlisted the help of TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek as producer and their beat-up copies of "Silent Shout" for inspiration, but for all its immediately recognizable debts, "Dance Mother" is something fresh. Telepathe's full-length debut will make for a nice counterpart to "Fever Ray," the recent side project from the Knife's Karin Dreijer Andersson. The album is sonically schizophrenic: Sweet two-part harmonies give way to looped, electronically altered rhythms on "Trilogy," and a guitar riff straight off "Return to Cookie Mountain" leads to the pornographically precise, surprisingly beautiful chorus of "Michael." The meaning is found less in the abstract, vague lyrics than in the collision of solidity and insubstantiality, the meaty and the sweet. Chilly laptop soundscapes are offset by the frail, girlish voices, with man and robot battling to a well-fought draw. (Out April 14)...full text |
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