Dance Punk/New Wave Kanine Records 2006
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No this isn't some horrific gangsta rapper, nor is it metal
Professor Murder is a New York band that creates amazing dance punk EP's. One of the immediately memorable things one notices is their incredible use of cowbell.
'Nuff Said.
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This short EP, clocking in at 16.4 minutes, succesfully creates a flash party. The album comes and goes in such a small party, it is reminiscient to a thirty minute rave with three hundred people in one tiny dorm room. Not only is this music fun and catchy, it's well made and there's love put into it.
The guys in this band seem like they grew up in the 80's and never grew up from partying and dancing. This is expressed through syncopated drums, great vintage synths, repetitive on purpose vocals, and the recording techniques.
The only bad thing about the album is that it leaves you wanting more as it comes and goes so quickly. Looking at the band's discography, with three EP's just like this one, it seems that this is their job. As most music goes, form fits the social context, so maybe Professor Murder as a band just shows up at parties blows people away with amazing dance music and leaves.
Ultimately, nobody will ever say "Needs More Cowbell"
For Listeners Of: The Rapture, Interpol, Tokyo Police Club, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, !!!, The Faint, LCD Soundsytem, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Q and Not U, The Kills
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