MSTRKRFT Debut New Song + New Phantogram Remix

The music business in 2016 is almost entirely just figuring out when something becomes considered nostalgic, and sending out songs and tours to capitalize on exactly that moment. Oh, Dishwalla just got back together (actually, they never split up, but Dishwalla is a funny reference?). Add them to the list of bands inside your heart you always wanted to see (hint: you didn't actually ever care, but pop music ages better than cellar-kept wine). Since A-Trak hit a nerve with his two mixes of fidget and bloghause, it would appear that MSTRKRFT have an uninterrupted boulevard of green lights to go ahead and exploit this brief opening where we reminisce about eight (!) years ago. But what of the songs, and not the social science of it? Well, it's not a poor facsimile of their former selves, which is more than you can say for the dumpster fire that was Death From Above 1979's attempt to control their own relevance again. As our staff writer Dan Ferrari said in his review, "I'm sure this paint-by-numbers cash grab of finally bowing to the youth who've clambered for a new album will be a great help to refinishing your wraparound porch or whatever, but your sick racoon of a legacy has crawled under said porch to blow its brains out." The latest MSTRKRFT is tough, and Soulwax-y, and sets the table nicely for any more attention they'd like to establish going around the Can Con electro sun at least one more time. Good work, MSTRKRFT. You can still be our pals. 

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