#875 Modeselektor - Monkeytown

I love it when weirdo electronic dudes aren't afraid to get rockist, and this album is ModeSelektor's most aggressive in ages. Busdriver and Thom Yorke aren't exactly the most original guys to get to sing over your vaguely-adventurous glitchy production, but their presence helps give human presence and backbone to the skittery experimentalism. None of the album's tricks are new by now (2011), but the balance of complexity, tension, and outright banging fun's unstoppable 4/5