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| Pitchfork |
 A lot has changed since Digitalism debuted with Idealism in 2007. France's Justice and their blog-house followers took peak-hour rave rock to its breaking point and left it limping by the side of the road. Electronic dance music cycled back through more traditional and frequently more mellow strains of disco and house. And everyone more or less stopped talking about once hopelessly hot labels like Ed Banger and Kitsuné.All of which actually leaves the Hamburg duo poised for a big second act. Idealism showed clear pop aspirations, from the Cure-repurposing of "Digitalism in Cairo" to the streamlined vocal number "Pogo". With thumping house beats still a big pop presence, now might be as good a time as any to realize such a crossover. But I Love You, Dude doesn't shake off the confines of genre to reveal a shiny new pop act underneath. Nor does it meaningfully improve on Digitalism's previous formulas. Instead, Dude is a mere rehash, as its title's similarity to 2009 Paul Rudd-Jason Segel bromance I Love You, Man, would suggest. Lead single "Blitz", with its filtered, circling synth lead, effectively recreates some of the glitzy appeal of Idealism's "Zdarlight", but with no moment quite as catchy as that song's effervescent guitar break. "Antibiotics" sort of recalls Tiga's Soulwax collab "What You Need", with its pitched-down exhortations giving way to jabbing drum machines and distorted synth. Neither track is more essential than its predecessors....full text |
| Toomanysebastians |
| Digitalism don’t really need an introduction, but I’ll do one anyway, because it’s polite and stuff. It’s two guys from Hamburg, Germany who formed in 2004 and their names are Jens “Jence” Moelle and İsmail “Isi” Tüfekçi. Originally part of the whole Kitsune movement way-back-when they were probably one of the first acts of that whole “electro-era” to become very come big. All the cool dudes played their remixes, they played massive festivals and their debut album contained heavyweight tracks such as Zdarlight, Jupiter Room and Pogo. It’s been four years since that debut, has the time been well spent?...full text |
| Consequenceofsound |
| Digitalism has never recorded under false pretenses. It’s always been about sounding like the French house music that recklessly emphasizes funk and hip-hop. They have also never been shy about transcending the commonplace in a live setting, leaving much of what they did in the studio behind for a bigger, bolder sound. So, it should come as no surprise that on their sophomore LP the sounds are exponentially more voluminous, far beyond that of their previous studio output. In their earlier days, the German duo was often flatly romanticized as being “the next Daft Punk” or “the next Justice,” but I find it hard to believe that they wanted to be “the next” anything. Digitalism was crafting a different soundscape, one that certainly involved elements of Justice or Daft Punk–the heavy bass-trodden beats, the cleverly placed samples–but one that was about creating a picture-perfect house sound that they could splatter all over the walls of every club, tent, and venue they visited. Unfortunately, to a certain degree, their debut LP, Idealism, was too small to fit the grandeur it so desperately hoped to achieve. There were certainly moments on the album that glistened hopefully at what someday could be, but due to some failed sonic experimenting and perhaps the funding to do exactly what they sought out to do, they never quite reached their destination. They were, for the time being, going to have to keep working for that perfect house sound....full text |
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