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- Date Released: September 20, 2009
- Genre: Electronic
- Label: XL Recordings
The Jaxx are still making the world's most vital dance music twelve years later
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We Say...
Twelve years since they found their stride with the multi-genre pile-up "Fly Life," Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe are still making the world's most vital and exciting dance-pop. "Twerk," featuring lesbian hip-hop duo Yo Majesty, is trademark Basement Jaxx: a seriously popping groove that explodes out of the speakers and incorporates both Bollywood references and a Michael Sembello interpolation. "Day of the Sunflowers", meanwhile, features the sui generis Yoko Ono and sounds like a dub remix of her mutant disco classic "Walking on Thin Ice" (with added Auto-Tune). However, instead of the sympathetic syncretism of old, Buxton and Ratcliffe occasionally sound like they're over-compensating: lead single "Raindrops" buries a "Romeo"-like melody underneath a mountain of production tricks, while "What's a Girl Gotta Do?" v like a Lily Allen single in search of a hook. But when Buxton and Ratcliffe are a bit more restrained, as on "Saga", a nifty neo-ska track with Santigold, Scars sounds like classic Basement Jaxx.
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| 01. |  |
Scars featuring Kelis, Meleka & Chipmunk |
4:16 |
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| 02. | |
Raindrops |
4:10 |
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| 03. | |
She’s No Good featuring Eli “Paperboy" Reed |
3:26 |
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| 04. | |
Saga featuring Santigold |
2:42 |
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| 05. | |
Feelings Gone featuring Sam Sparro |
3:42 |
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| 06. | |
My Turn featuring Lightspeed Champion |
4:52 |
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| 07. | |
A Possibility featuring Amp Fiddler |
2:45 |
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| 08. | |
Twerk featuring Yo Majesty |
3:30 |
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| 09. | |
Day Of The Sunflowers (We March On) featuring Yoko Ono |
5:59 |
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| 10. | |
What’s A Girl Gotta Do? featuring Paloma Faith |
4:04 |
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| 11. | |
Stay Close featuring Lisa Kekaula |
3:01 |
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| 12. | |
Distractionz featuring Jose Hendrix Ndelo |
5:03 |
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| 13. | |
Gimme Somethin’ True featuring Jose James |
5:31 |
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13 Total Tracks, 53:01 Total Length
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