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Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do

Major Lazer

Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do

Super-producer duo Switch and Diplo turn their hands to dancehall reggae with a bunch of guest singers

ADM rating[?]

7.2

Label
Cooperative/Downtown
UK Release date
06/07/2009
  1. 8.1 |   Pitchfork

    Kicking off summer with an armful of perfect cookout-, top down-ready songs, like the daytime soundtrack equivalent of all of the summertime night's rooftop music that's been coming from Swedes Air France and the Tough Alliance and the new wave of American indie disciples, such as Real Estate and Memory Cassette in the past year-plus. Best to enjoy it now, even though it will still also sound great in six months
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  2. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    Sometimes feels like a cherrypicking trawl through 40 years of Jamaican musical history, but it's all done with such energy and flair that it's difficult not to obey instructions and shake your bottom frenetically
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  3. 8.0 |   Observer Music Monthly

    They figured it might be a nice idea to go to Bob Marley's Tuff Gong studios in Kingston and revive dancehall reggae for British club kids reared on twitchy electro-disco. They've pulled it off spectacularly well
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  4. 8.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    Reggae and ragga provide the musical backbone but Major Lazer is also about the jagged electro of Britain’s cutting-edge dance floors. For the most part, however, it all revels in the unexpected
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  5. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    Marks the evolution of two artists hemmed in by specific genres of their own creation, and sees them push the boundaries of expectation and experimentation a little to the left
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  6. 7.0 |   The Observer

    The sense of fun can't quite conceal its various weak points. But there are some seriously good tunes here too
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  7. 7.0 |   NME

    It’s held together by a pleasant rawness and lack of concern with matters commercia... If you have to buy one painfully esoteric, scrotum-tighteningly hip, show-off album this year, you may want to make it this one
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  8. 6.0 |   Q

    Print edition only


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