Sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

I went and bought the Bondo do Role album, 'With Lasers' yesterday. It's been produced by Diplo, who has been romantically linked with M.I.A and who contributed to 'Bucky Done Gun'. On first listen, 'With Lasers' sounded a lot like 'Arular'. But it also has the silliness of CSS, some typical Brazilian drumming, the electro-sex-funk of Peaches, and some pretty heavy guitars too. Personally, I think it will be a big hit with the Poptimists community, but I wanted to see if anyone else has got the album, or seen them live, and what they think? I'll hopefully be seeing them at Glastonbury (Saturday, 7.30pm Lounge Stage) so am intrigued to hear if anyone has seen their live set.

I was in a bit of a rush this morning, so only had time to upload one track, and it's probably the silliest on the album, featuring kazoos (yes, very Embrace)!
Bondo do Role - Geremia (Sendspace link)

Thoughts please.

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I checked out a couple of YouTube videos ages ago and was really disappointed - they sounded not enough baile funk and too much, I dunno, funk rock or something (Oh OK I probably mean INDIE but I knew they would be that). I think thenipper submitted a track of theirs for the Pop World Cup, and it was OK, so the jury is still out, but they sound like something I might have wanted to hear then than now.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv8mZh3MHhA

Here we are. Not as bad as I remembered actually! The bouncy but limp electro-indie pretty much completely overwhelms the baile rhythms so there's no drive to it at all but it's a lot less messy than I remembered and good fun on the whole. I will suspend my Lexian disapproval but can't get very excited, sorry!