Modeselektor - The Black Block

Video taken from Happy Birthday! Actually Modeselektor are excited to become cartoons. The groupÒ..s last couple of album covers are giddily aware of it. Inside the latest albumÒ..s cover and on its portly made-for-CD running-time, Modeselektor pound away with ACME anvils and beep beep through open rangesÒ..covering the distance between bangers and ballads. Or, to be fair, itÒ..s just bangers and ballads. ThatÒ..s it. LetÒ..s not take away from ModeselektorÒ..s strengths. I guess the pair is also good at bastardizing genres and music scenes. Their debut album wasnÒ..t named Ò..Hello Dad!Ò.. for a reason. Happy Birthday! just begs to be described in a pragmatic word like Ò..chock-full,Ò.. but hereÒ..s an overlooked factoidÒ..itÒ..s the first album to be graced by one Thom Yorke which isnÒ..t worried about being capital-t Tasteful. At all.

DigiChannel | April 20, 2009

Tags:. .giddily. .beep. .bangers. .anvils. .overlooked