Harlem Shakes - Technicolor Health reviews
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| Popmatters |
 Harlem Shakes’ 2007 Burning Birthdays EP was a brief but brilliant sampling of sunny, sure-footed pop that promised plenty of possibilities for this Brooklyn-based band. Now, a year and a half later, all that potential pays off on the group’s first full-length, Technicolor Health.
“Nothing But Change Part II” opens the album in a fevered frenzy of pop parts held together by Lexy Benaim’s slyly clever lyrics and an obvious abundance of exuberance all around. Hand claps and high harmonies carry along on joyful rhythms and frenetic beats. Encapsulated in this one song is everything you need to know about this band and this album, and it’s all here to encourage, or perhaps compel, further listening. Every element exists to ensure each time you hear it you’ll want to hear it again. Harlem Shakes releases musical endorphins here, and the enthusiasm is irresistible. “One down and nine to go,” crows Benaim near the end, reminding us this is still only the first track!...full text |
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| Prefixmag |
| For never having released an album, the Harlem Shakes have been around a while; chronologically accurate or not, it is telling that I associate them with Room on Fire-era the Strokes/New York circa 2003. The band deserves credit for maintaining its profile on the strength of one EP and validating tours with Deerhoof, Tapes ‘n Tapes, and, more recently, Vampire Weekend....full text |
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| Cokemachineglow |
| Technicolor Health is some sick candy: it’s what our indie pop should sound like in 2009. It imagines a world where The OC still matters, where goddamned Kanye West is agreeably employed, and where your little brother doesn’t think it’s just ok to listen to Neutral Milk Hotel that many times/isn’t aware of more than half of the bands the Shakes are copping freely when they’re not just writing sad songs about girls, which is a lot. This is indie pop. This is your lousy local band carried forward starship-like into a fizzing pop nebula and left to spin so fast and so ably that you ultimately forget the baggage and any corny adage; because Technicolor Health fundamentally sounds good and because its songs are well-crafted enough to make a lot of the African drumming and horns sound less like garnish and more like some well-earned reward for writing songs strong enough to make that shit sound sort of necessary. Technicolor Health is self-sufficient. It isn’t community, it eats itself. It is every good-to-great pre-Wincing the Night Away (2007) indie pop record brought forth and actualised as the definitive good-to-great (but mostly great) indie pop record you should be hearing as spring turns into summer, 2009. The Harlem Shakes wear everybody’s clothes really well....full text |
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