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Indie-rock moonlighters get their smoove on.
To call this synth-slathered electro-R&B side project from Ra Ra Riot’s Wes Miles and Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij a genre experiment implies it’s a failure. It’s not. Hearing Miles croon, “I promise to leave before your mother wakes up in the morning” over a warm bed of fuzzy synths and tinny 808s on “Orange Shirt” falls just on the right side of ridiculous; the multitempo electro-pop jam “So Insane” is oddly affecting, as is the spare, reggae-tinged “Slang Tang.” Goofy lyrics and too-frequent Auto-Tuning pushes this close to winking douchebaggery, but not too close.
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