It's a fine line between exciting and annoying. a girl's laugh in the night. breakdancing dude in a neon hat. really spicy thai food. nipple clamps. It's a line toed by the likes of Spank Rock, Girl Talk, and Dan Deacon, trying to break you out of convention with a kick in the dick that spikes your grin with cringe.
With its overfat synths, banal choruses, relentless repetition, and dead-simple 4/4's, I can't tell if Night Wave is winking, or if this is just the new sound of pop music. If this had come out 5 years ago it might have been brilliant, but right now its either not a joke, or a joke that hits a bit too close to home.
Werk Me is straightforward and abstract enough to work, and work well actually. And some of the hip hop elements are goddamn explosive. But then...
Take Cheap Thrills which puts hard-edged hip hop over vulnerable synths and you get your head bobbing and then "BWEEEEEEEEEooooww", it takes a huge dubstep shit. It's like when you're watching an 80's movie, and you're really feeling like its actually pretty timeless, and then the synth soundtrack kicks in, and you roll your eyes and the moment is over. It's like watching a good comedian, a really good, surprisingly good commedian for a night like this, can you believe this guy, wow this is why I go to open mic night, hah, wow. And then he takes a litteral shit on stage.
The moment is over.
I really liked moments of this album. And then I realized it was really fucking terrible* 2/5
* I still kinda like it though
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