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- Date Released: May 12, 2009
- Genre: Electronic
- Label: Tiny e Records / INgrooves
These guys take their partying seriously, and they excel at soundtracking it
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We Say...
If it's always been a little mean-spirited to dismiss the Crystal Method — the L.A.-via-Vegas dance-DJ/production team of Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland — as Yank copycat Chemical Brothers, it's also basically accurate. It helps that the Chemicals have made tremendous music — and so, too, have the Crystals, albeit at a lower inspirational bit-rate. Early singles such as "Busy Child" and "Keep Hope Alive" made it clear that this pair took its partying seriously, and the easy highlight of Divided by Night, the duo's fifth album, is an ode to that very thing. "Come Back Clean," featuring Emily Haines, swaddles the Metric singer in hyperreal drums, 3D percussion, and propulsive synths doing backflips over themselves while she croons, "Don't blame the drugs in your bloodstream/Don't blame the buzz for your bad dream."
Haines isn't the only guest on Divided by Night. Peter Hook, bassist of New Order, is featured on both "Dirty Thirty" (you can hear his high-fretted lines crawl through circular keyboard riffs) and "Blunts & Robots" (where he plays lead). Jason Lytle (ex-Grandaddy), Justin Warfield (She Wants Revenge), and Meiko also drop in. Alas, so do Matisyahu and, on "Sine Language," LMFAO ("What I like is girls cooking breakfast/And what I really like is if they're cooking nekkid" — yuck.) Still, a party's a party. -
They Say...
The Crystal Method have gradually shed the glossy big-beat techno that made their name in the late '90s as one of the few mainstream American answers to the Chemical Brothers and Daft Punk, and they've also matured as producers, which has resulted in better albums (but fewer dancefloor-filling singles). They may still grab influences from the best in '90s dance music, but they've become increasingly adept at constructing albums with more ideas (and subtlety) than the usual dance act. Divided by Night is indeed varied and polished, and it includes guest features by the bucketful, but it reveals again that, more than anything, the Crystal Method are clever regurgitators of the past. (Granted, this has happened to virtually every dance act of their generation, from the Chemical Brothers to Fatboy Slim.) The title track opener is a promising slow-burn start, but instead of exploding into the next track, the Peter Hook feature "Dirty Thirty," the record sputters with breakbeats that have been heard hundreds of times before. Matisyahu makes "Drown in the Now" moderately fresh, and the longtime L.A. man about town Justin Warfield attempts to channel Phil Oakey on the future-shock "Kling to the Wreckage," but these are yet more danceable electronica of the paint-by-numbers variety. Still, as they've matured, the Crystal Method have become an act who can beguile most listeners.
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Divided By Night |
5:03 |
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| 02. | |
Dirty Thirty |
5:26 |
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| 03. | |
Drown In The Now |
5:49 |
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Kling To The Wreckage |
4:06 |
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Smile? |
5:35 |
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Sine Language |
6:16 |
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Double Down Under |
5:51 |
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Come Back Clean |
4:59 |
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Slipstream |
5:20 |
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Black Rainbows |
6:22 |
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Blunts & Robots |
5:50 |
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Falling Hard |
6:38 |
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12 Total Tracks, 67:15 Total Length
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Credits
- Justin Warfield - Guitar // Justin Warfield - Guest Appearance // Jon Brion - Synthesizer // Jon Brion - Marxophone // Peter Hook - Bass // Peter Hook - Guest Appearance // David Kahne - Vocal Engineer // The Crystal Method - Producer // The Crystal Method - Mixing // Samantha Maloney - Drums // Jason Lytle - Guest Appearance // Emily Haines - Guest Appearance // Emily Haines - Guest Appearance
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