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Album Reviews
Album Review: Kap Bambino – Blacklist (Because)
By Marc Samuels | Published on Monday 18 May 2009
Kap Bambino are a hip French duo (Orion Bouvier on electronics, Caroline Martial on, er, shouting) who sound exactly as their name suggests – feisty, deliriously unhinged, yet slightly cute (though cute in the same way as a tiger about to maul you to death). Packed with uncompromising synths, tinny drum machine beats and hellishly intense vocals, Kap Bambino assault your senses with their pure energy alone… sounding like the schizophrenic offspring of Miss Kittin and Helen Love in a 100mph motorway pile up with Sheep On Drugs, Alec Empire, early Bis, some gabba ravers on crack and a truckload of Giorgio Moroder’s knackered old synths. Thankfully there’s enough melodic suss at hand to elevate the angry, turbo-charged DIY electro punk into the realms of pop – it’s more hyperactive neon than white noise, really. There’s barely a track over two minutes in length, and whilst some are less frenetic than others (and tracks like ‘Batcaves’ are ultimately more electroclash than punk), we’re not exactly in chill-out mode anywhere. Very entertaining then, but unless their sounds develops it may not be enough to sustain a career. Though such a comment may well be of no concern to the duo – you suspect that being called a fad would be taken as a great compliment. MS
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