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| Clashmusic |
 London-based twosome autoKratz have been heralded as the “flag bearers for the new wave of British electronic music”. Truth be told, it is hard to detect anything particularly novel about their take on electronic music, or what distinguishes the NWOBEM from the countless electro acts that have gone before.This terrain has already been painstakingly mapped out by an array of beats-armed cartographers. Of course, we could mention the legacy of those German innovators, or the DJs who first loosed such sounds in the clubs of Detroit and Chicago, or the New York electro progenitors. Closer to home there were the Eighties practitioners who took this nascent music out of the clubs, refined it and pushed it into the pop charts; men armed only with primitive synthesizers and some leather bondage gear. Soft Cell, we salute you. Elsewhere, it is clear that autoKratz have stumbled upon the trail of Depeche Mode: ‘Speak In Silence’, eh? If the title isn’t a giveaway, then the storm cloud fringed ambience most definitely is. Meanwhile, in contemporary terms, we’re talking Simian Mobile Disco, Justice, Vitalic, The Presets et al. However, let me draw an analogy with Ranulph Fiennes’ recent ascent of Everest. Yes, there were a multitude there before him, but damn it’s still a hell of an achievement for the old bugger. And ‘Animal’ is a hell of an achievement, an album of multiple peaks, each of them breathtaking. ‘Past Your Heart’ and ‘Can’t Get Enough’ are designed for optimum dancefloor carnage; ‘Stay The Same’ is like Hot Chip with a jump-lead up the jacksie, whilst the pulsing momentum of ‘Gone Gone Gone’ betrays the influence of Kraftwerk; and ‘Human Highway’ proves that when they take their foot off the accelerator the results are entrancing....full text |
| Guardian |
| AutoKratz's 2008 mini-album was titled Down & Out in Paris and London, reflecting not only their stated love of Orwell but their role as east London's wing of the growing Parisian record/fashion label Kitsuné. Those familiar and keen on Kitsuné's oeuvre - acts such as Digitalism and the much loved Kitsuné Maison compilations - will find much to like in duo David Cox and Russell Crank. Stay the Same is a joyful mash of pounding electronica juxtaposed with Cox's low-key vocals. Unfortunately, the melodic kicks in that tune, and in the opener Always More, don't hold throughout the rest of the 11 tracks, and what could've sounded like a thoroughly modern take on, say, New Order, ends up sounding more like fellow Kitsuné endorsed dance-rockers the Whip....full text |
| Nme |
| London’s autoKratz can certainly bring the noise. In the likes of ‘Gone Gone Gone’ and ‘The Idiots Are Winning’, the Kitsuné-approved duo deliver brutal bangers that would slip seamlessly into any Justice or Hervé DJ set. However, such boyish noise has been done to death of late and, frankly, it’s been done better. More interesting is David Cox and Russell Crank’s Tiga-ish pop sensibility. Bench-pressing pop pearl ‘Stay The Same’, the propulsive, dreamy ‘Can’t Stand Without’, and the coolly dramatic ‘Speak In Silence’ all have a puppyish energy, and rely on a rather limited palate of raw, serrated synth noises, but they also have some of Fischerspooner’s style. At their best, autoKratz are coolly logical pop craftsmen. Tony Naylor Click here to get your copy of Autokratz' 'Animal' from the Rough Trade shop...full text |
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