chromeo and matt pryor reviews

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chromeo- fancy footwork

chormeo is one of those bands ive heard of via the remix. i swear their songs have been remixed by everyone.. so when i came across the album i decided to give it a try.

right off the bat its pretty obvious why all these songs got remixed. its just dancey poppy almost cheesy layers super synths and trust me the lyrics and samples reflect the music. with all of that said you would think it would be super boring, but somehow it all works. if you like kraftwerk you'll love this album, the influence on chormeo is just undeniable and this shows it. plus if you like 80's synth pop (minus the singing this reminds me of a flock of seagulls) this is kinda like the modern day form of it.

maybe i'm just a sucker for pop electro with tons of synths but this is definitely something pretty cool (not necessarily original...) and you don't need to be a huge hipster to enjoy.

the bonus album titled fancier footwork is mostly all the remixes ive heard before and some b-sides. all of it is a pretty interesting time. i feel like chormeo might get bunched in with the other 100000 synth pop bands who are coming out of the wood work but if anything if the album of originals gets overlooked they can produce some songs to remix.

ill score it 7.8/10, this is awesome now thats it new to me but i think it will get old in about a month, still it's a solid album.

check out:
tenderoni (plus check out the MSTRKRFT remix)

matt pryor -confidence man

don't get me wrong but i got nothing wrong with former pop punk-emo frontmen shedding their power-cord past for something folkish but keeping the songs memorable is the tricky part. for those who don't know matt was the singer/guitar of the get up kids and now fronts the new amsterdam's. if you've kept up with matt you'll see his evolving in terms of going for more and more folk-ish music and on confidence man it's mostly just matt and a guitar with some occasional percussion.

the songs them self are pretty enjoyable folky songs and almost soothing to a point. but as i said above matt kinda fell short in terms of keeping the songs memorable. the songs are just kinda... there. it seems like that's the case with all of these frontmen going solo or acoustic. these projects never have the magic of their old bands, and they wonder why people yell out old songs for them to play. another thing is matt has a pretty raspy voice that just dont match the music very well unless they layered his vocals. but then again i'm not used to matt being somewhat quiet.

i'm not saying this is bad at all, i just dont see myself listening to this as much as.. a get up kids album. matt is a very talented guy but i feel like on this he's just gone in the graveyard of 'front men who went solo and made the enjoyable album to listen to occasionally but fans will like his older stuff much more.'

ill score it 6/10... i'm gonna put on a guk album.

i want to do the girlsareshort video, but no time. i'll bang it out. i promise!

posted by nicholas b. @ 11:40 PM