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

[zenith.livejournal.com]

Wait, so Bonde Do Role are self-consciously wacky and the stuff that samples kids TV themes (!) isn't?

I really don't get the wackiness thing, it just seems like messy fun to me. Yes, yes, fun is a moveable feast...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I don't really like messy fun! I like sleek fun. Which brings me back to the first point - BDR are self-conscious not because of what samples they use but in the way they use them, foregrounding them at the expense of the rio funk - it makes it sound like the rio funk is secondary to the sample. Rather like Rihanna's 'SOS' in fact, where the sample dwarfs Rihanna to the extent that she's subsumed in it. It should be the other way round, which I think most rio funk does v successfully.