#1008 Factory Floor - Factory Floor

You can hear those DFA post-dancepunk clipclop beats a mile away. Here they are, back again, the vocals a bit more twisted, the song lengths a bit more varied, but the basic blueprint wholly intact: the knobtwiddle synth loops, the casiotone drum samples, the elliptical headphase. It's perfectly listenable, a modest tweak of a well-worn sound, a honing of the feel that inspires bristles on occasion (dig those bare, brazen synths on Fall Back, the hissy clips on How You Say), but surely DFA's got the guts to cast its line a bit farther afield than this in two thousand and thirteen? 3.5/5