Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You (02/05/2011)
Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You
As the long wait for their second studio album Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You is finally over, Does It Offend You, Yeah? allow their fans to step down from their pre-prepared nooses and sink their teeth into a satisfyingly juicy album that will leave their ears ringing and the adrenaline pumping.
With tracks from their previous album featuring in a range mainstream and midstream films, games and TV shows all around the world for the past three years, there is little doubt that these lot are not going by unnoticed. Admittedly, one cannot stray too far from comparing them to the likes of French DJ’s Daft Punk and Justice but with strong rock influences and British accents.
Although it’s difficult to brand the band any one thing as their eclectic composition techniques are almost expected to sound like a bad day at the G20 summit. Instead, we end up with a collection of electrifying sounds which keep the critics guessing and the kids on Last.fm tag team scratching their heads. This is not to say they’re a crowd pleaser of a band as keyboardist Dan Coop responds to critical reviews to their foreign sound on Bolt FM – “We've got so many different styles on our records... We try hard to not be put into any one category... We’re really schizophrenic like that."
Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You is not far from Coop’s description. We Are the Dead opens up the album with its unwelcomed soft acoustic start, building tension within the listeners as they almost suspect their wait was completely not worth it. But this tension is knocked down as the band gush out of their shell with a wave of noise that could instigate a heart attack. John Hurt succeeds with an eerie, unsettling guitar riff which is then followed up with a lot of drum bashing and lung bursting vocals and even a little James Brown in the form of Woo! Yeah! This doesn’t mean that the band has come out, all guns blazing and a short fuse. There are some reminders of their other musical capabilities and range of genre with Pull Out My Insides, Broken Arms and Wrong Time Wrong Planet demonstrating their strong British rock influences.
On the whole, the entire album is pure Does It Offend You, Yeah?. One has to admire their devotion to the entire album as many members of the band had voluntarily hid away from the music scene for the past two years. This was to avoid being branded ‘the next…’ or ‘copy cats’ as Coop told Bolt FM and in order produce the album as naturally as possible. It has certainly paid off as the group’s fans are able to pack away their nooses to spoon with the album for another year or so. Over all, this certainly looks to be the bands year as their wave of noise grows bigger and gains speed with each passing moment… Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
7.5/10
A. Shikari
With tracks from their previous album featuring in a range mainstream and midstream films, games and TV shows all around the world for the past three years, there is little doubt that these lot are not going by unnoticed. Admittedly, one cannot stray too far from comparing them to the likes of French DJ’s Daft Punk and Justice but with strong rock influences and British accents.
Although it’s difficult to brand the band any one thing as their eclectic composition techniques are almost expected to sound like a bad day at the G20 summit. Instead, we end up with a collection of electrifying sounds which keep the critics guessing and the kids on Last.fm tag team scratching their heads. This is not to say they’re a crowd pleaser of a band as keyboardist Dan Coop responds to critical reviews to their foreign sound on Bolt FM – “We've got so many different styles on our records... We try hard to not be put into any one category... We’re really schizophrenic like that."
Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You is not far from Coop’s description. We Are the Dead opens up the album with its unwelcomed soft acoustic start, building tension within the listeners as they almost suspect their wait was completely not worth it. But this tension is knocked down as the band gush out of their shell with a wave of noise that could instigate a heart attack. John Hurt succeeds with an eerie, unsettling guitar riff which is then followed up with a lot of drum bashing and lung bursting vocals and even a little James Brown in the form of Woo! Yeah! This doesn’t mean that the band has come out, all guns blazing and a short fuse. There are some reminders of their other musical capabilities and range of genre with Pull Out My Insides, Broken Arms and Wrong Time Wrong Planet demonstrating their strong British rock influences.
On the whole, the entire album is pure Does It Offend You, Yeah?. One has to admire their devotion to the entire album as many members of the band had voluntarily hid away from the music scene for the past two years. This was to avoid being branded ‘the next…’ or ‘copy cats’ as Coop told Bolt FM and in order produce the album as naturally as possible. It has certainly paid off as the group’s fans are able to pack away their nooses to spoon with the album for another year or so. Over all, this certainly looks to be the bands year as their wave of noise grows bigger and gains speed with each passing moment… Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
7.5/10
A. Shikari