Instrumental rock where the sounds and noises are manipulated without limits, reminding the innumerous projects that populated New York circa 1980 (Liquid Liquid, This Heat, Glenn Branca...). Coming from Canada, Holy Fuck use ingredients like complex rhythmic sctructures and infectious samples to create an organic body that is pure energy. (8/10)
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No Age - Weirdo Rippers
A selection of best songs from previously released EP's, "Weirdo Rippers" is what happens when you grab punk music and insert it in a noise machine ending up with anthemic melodies battling with drones and lots of reverb. (7/10)
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Midnight Juggernauts - Dystopia
The proclaimed australian answer to new-rave and Justice's favourite new band is also something that seems like a tribute to glam-rock. Confusing? "Dystopia" is that kind of album. It's also dense pop music that tries to reach the stars and, when you do it with such a sense of urgency as this band does, you may actually end up getting there. (7/10)
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Daft Punk - Alive 2007
With a show that is supposed to be an epic celebration and innumerous bands and projects citing them as main inspirations, 2007 may very well be the best year of their career. To celebrate this, here's a live album that, even if sounding incomplete without the actual images, shows how well these two robots know how to take a crowd into ecstactic euphoria, mashing up the best elements of their own songs to create more new anthems. (8/10)
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Boys Noize - OiOiOi
Speaking of Daft Punk and their influence in today's music scene, Berlin project Boys Noize is one of the best examples. Full-impact electronic songs, where loud is not loud enough and the day is not complete without punching everyone in the dancefloor with your bleeding samples and brutal beats. (7/10)
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Skepta - Greatest Hits
Anyone that names his debut album "Greatest Hits" has to have my respect. In 2007, grime tried to sound like something else, and even if that approach has produced at least one great record ("Maths And English" by Dizzee Rascal), it's nice to see someone still doing pure grime and sounding as fresh as Skepta does. (7/10).
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Shape Of Broad Minds - Craft Of The Lost Art
J. Dilla may be death, but his legacy lives on. "Craft Of The Lost Art" is an ode to the old fresh days of hip-hop but, like Dilla, everything is taken into the present and even to the future by some of the most inventive beats and samples you'll hear in quite some time. (7/10)
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Gorillaz - D-Sides
The ultimate music band of this decade, everything Gorillaz have done in their lifetime is somewhere around brilliant (and this includes not only music but also videos, DVD's, books, visuals, imaginary, etc.). "D-Sides" is a posthumous release that collects rare tracks, B-sides and remixes and, even if lacking the conceptual force that could be fully heard on their two official albums, is still full of amazingly successful experiments, using an absurd number of disparate Pop elements to create a new world out of chaos. (7/10)
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