A Million Microphones

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Total Tracks: 11   Total Length: 41:28

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Amelia Raitt

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Amelia Raitt is a former writer for the television program Mr. Belvedere and has been writing about pop music of all colors and stripes for eMusic since 2005. S...more »

04.22.11
Supersystem, A Million Microphones
Label: Touch And Go

A Million Microphones finds Supersystem moving past the basic dance-rock template they followed for their debut, decorating their songs with thick squiggles of electronics and bright, blinking percussion. The D.C. group pulls from hundreds of different record bins to shade and shape their compositions: giddy gypsy accordion wheezes in the back of "The Lake" and the angular guitar line that rockets up the center of "Joy" could have been swiped from a volume of Ethiopiques and the staccato break in "Prophets" owes a debt to the shimmering sounds of Sunny Ade. Superbly schizophrenic, A Million Microphones perfectly reflects the mashed-up, cross-bred modern age.

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holds up!

15HEAT

i downloaded this album out of curiosity based on positive feedback here on emusic. this was a few years ago, and i'm still listening to this album pretty regularly and it always seems to surprise me a little in its depth. a really good record that holds up over time. i'm really glad i got it, so, thanks emusic.

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The best.

wappytea

El Guapo/Supersystem/Shy Child = the best in their genre. Pick this album up and you will not regret it. This is the album that turned me onto such a talent.

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unusual for the genre...

tenzinandrio

... in that the genre bores me now, but this doesn't. These guys are really stretching it -- unusual melodies, subversive beats, precise and varied instrumentation, and songwriting that transcends the boy-girl that usually dominates post-dance-rock. Not my favorite album this year, or this Fall, but worth a look-see.

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TheBrixtonBeat

Here's an idea.. write reviews for GENRES you actually LIKE. Anyway, I like this genre (post-punk, dance rock, etc), and I like a good 3rd of this album. I'd recommend: The Lake (The Shins meets Moving Units!), The Only Way It's Ever Been Done (the most "pop" song here), The City (nice), and White Light White Light (punk rock baby).

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like a psycho girlfriend...

incongruity

This album may come on strong and seem very likable at first listen, but trust your friends who tell you that there's just something not right with it all -- it'll never leave you alone and definitely mess with your head, and not in that fun, trippy sort of way. The simple lyrics and hook-heavy music will root into your brain and echo themselves ad nauseam until you find yourself wishing you'd never have listened to them in the first place.

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stop the dance

spookypube

please not more '88 rehashed dance "information society" crap. touch and go please get back to your roots. a pick? remember this music was the enemy!

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