May 9, 2008 | Posted by Blair at 12:00 AM

Joining the party

Santogold - Your Voice (link via RCRDLBL)

So yeah, MFR is joining the party a little late - if you're a regular reader, you know that we often do, just because Mark and I both like to ruminate a bit, you know, let things seep in a bit more, before hyping something.

Anyway, I'm happy to put the MFR stamp of approval on Santi White's new band and album, Santogold, because the record is a solid piece of multi-referential cross-cultural pop music, tying together electronic dance music, hip-hop, reggae and punk into an incredibly listenable album with a massively broad appeal (think modern Beck or Gnarles Barkley). It seems that everyone online and in print (Rolling Stone, Spin) has been hyping Santogold since people first saw her live shows last year, and heard about her collaborators on the album (including Spank Rock, M.I.A., Diplo, Radioclit, Sinden and Switch, etc.), marking the project "one to watch" in 2008.

Now, I'm not going to toot ye olde MFR horn that much, but remember MFR Vol. 1? There's this track on there, "A Day With Andrew", by a band called Stiffed - that's right, that is Santi's previous project. So yeah, we were there. Ha ha!

No, all right, you got me. I tend to shy away from majorly-hyped stuff like this, but from when I first heard "L.E.S. Artistes" I was certainly curious to see what would happen with Santogold, and it is looking like big thing are afoot.

Buy Santogold from Amazon.com, or download it from Amazon or iTunes. Recommended. Also check out the video for "L.E.S. Artistes" over on Youtube.

Comments

I was a little afraid of the hipster vibe running around this album as well, but really liked it alot!

Posted by: avant/chi at May 9, 2008 12:40 PM

I listened to "L.E.S. Artistes" the other day and I thought it was Dale Bozzio! Awesome.

Posted by: Jesse at May 10, 2008 5:18 PM
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