Plug It In review!

[foxmonkey]

From Pitchfork, a review for 'Plug It In.' I saw this earlier but couldn't post it because of my lunch buddies! Blast them! So. I think the rating is one and a half stars, but that seems pretty low considering the compliments given. Who knows, I've given up trying to figure out what these reviewers are thinking. Edited to add: I'm a doofus! Thanks to revisionary for pointing out that the stars *follow* the review. Which means that 'Plug It In' got four and a half stars! Yay! Which makes more sense, considering the compliments it received. :-)


Basement Jaxx [ft. JC Chasez]: "Plug It In"

The UK-friendly "Lucky Star" was a solid choice for the first single off Basement Jaxx's Kish Kash, but in my mind doesn't stand a chance against the record's two great dance numbers, "Right Here's the Spot" and the newly released second single, "Plug It In". Part of me can't help but view "Plug It In" as much more of an American dance track, and it should put Basement Jaxx among steady vinyl pulls at the clubs-- at the least more so than "Lucky Star" did.

Much like the album it's culled from, "Plug It In" is extremely dense. Every moment is packed with nine or ten synthlines, whistles, vocal cut-ups (some even from other Kish Kash songs), horn hits, auxiliary percussion, and a good share of hooky early-90s Michael Jacksonisms that manage never to recall the more popular recent work of JC Chasez's former bandmate. Yet, for all this tomfoolery, Basement Jaxx's bass and drum programming keeps everything in line and everyone dancing-- which is really dance music's only responsibility-- and provides enough of a diversion for the floor to keep the magic of "Plug It In" from exhausting itself, if that were even a possibility.

[Nick Sylvester; March 8th, 2004]

Comments

[katlike.livejournal.com]

Actually, the number of stars is given after the review, so it received four-and-a-half stars. :)

The single they REALLY hated was from OutKast.