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- Date Released: May 5, 2009
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Pop
- Label: Badman Recording Co.
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We Say...
Starfucker's asterisk-ready name and insane stage antics may raise eyebrows, but it's all in good fun — really good fun, in fact. Armed with an arsenal of lively synth hooks, zany pseudo-poeticisms and enough energy to fuel several dozen college dance parties, the quirky Portland four-piece churns out exuberant electro-pop in a veritable spectrum of neon colors. There's no resisting songs like "Medicine," with its heavily punctuated, sing-along chorus, or "Boy Toy," which buzzes and beeps around airy '80s vocals. Even the cheesy Cindi Lauper cover seems destined for dance floor success, loaned a good-naturedly ironic sheen in Starfucker's cheeky retelling.
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They Say...
Only eight months after their self-titled record, Starfucker kept the iron hot by quickly releasing an eight-song stopgap EP. Short, sweet, and as unapologetically campy as their first, Jupiter finds the group continuing its mission to make indie boys and girls dance unabashedly to synthesized beats. It's essentially a "second verse, same as the first" take on the breezy electro-pop ditties of their debut. The tacked-on remix of "Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second" from the first album is pretty indicative that this is an album of supplementary songs, rather than a step forward. If there's a change at all here, it's that there's more vocoder on board, the songs are slightly more uptempo, and Starfucker's influences are more obvious this time around. Musically and thematically, "Boy Toy" doesn't seem too far off from Air's "Sexy Boy," "Dance Face 2000" is loosely based on Crystal Castles' "Crimewave," and anyone familiar with singer Josh Hodges' other project Sexton Blake and his subsidiary '80s cover record Plays the Hits won't be surprised by the synth update of Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." These tunes aren't meant to be taken seriously. They're meant to get hipster feet moving, and the groovy "Biggie Smalls" and "Bed-Stuy (Super Cop)" are slick (and ironic) enough to do just that.
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Medicine |
4:16 |
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| 02. | |
Boy Toy |
3:11 |
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| 03. | |
Dance Face 2000 |
3:10 |
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| 04. | |
Bed-Stuy (Super Cop) |
2:43 |
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| 05. | |
Biggie Smalls |
3:07 |
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| 06. | |
Girls Just Want To Have Fun |
3:07 |
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Jupiter |
1:52 |
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| 08. | |
Rawnald Gregory Erickson The Second (Strategy Remix) |
4:44 |
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08 Total Tracks, 26:10 Total Length
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Credits
- Dylan Magierek - Engineer // Carl Saff - Mastering // Josh Hodges - Engineer // Sohale Kevin Darouian - Artwork // Sohale Kevin Darouian - Design
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