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Instead of being a magical combination of the best of both worlds as the band intends (the sort mastered by alternative dance predecessors Primal Scream and its ilk), the music’s rigid angularity as typified by opening salvo “Our Perfect Disease” is more comparable to bad Bloc Party, except with more shouting. Whatever you think of contemporary commercial dance music, it’s clear regardless that the production techniques utilized on This Modern Glitch are ill-suited to the Liverpool-based indie rockers. As the album instantly hits you with an overcompressed diamond-hard wall of sound buttressed by body-shaking, blown-out bass and piercing treble, you can practically hear the recording costs being punched into a calculator. This Modern Glitch exudes an oppressively artificial air all over due to its overglossed production, the sort generally reserved for today’s mainstream dance-pop. Trouble is, this vibe comes off as rather forced. Transparently crafted as the soundtrack to some endless indie disco night, This Modern Glitch is undoubtedly a good time record. Despite its frequently-mopey lyrics, the trio’s second album This Modern Glitch is a bright, shiny thing, a reflection of the group’s newfound fascination with synths as well as the sonic manifestation of the sheer existential joy of being in an upwardly-mobile rock ensemble. The sentiment is perhaps best expressed on the delirious, revelatory anthem "Techno Fan," in which Murphy, despite the music not being to his taste, screams to the girl who invited him out to the club, "Shut up and move with me, move with me or get out of my face." Similarly, tracks like the driving post-punk disco cut "Tokyo (Vampires and Werewolves)" and deliciously bleak "Jump into the Fog" are grand statements of Pyrrhic, drunken escape from the pressures of modern life, with Murphy crooning on "Tokyo," "Finally! I know what it takes/It takes money and aeroplanes." He pushes the notion further on the brilliantly melodic, ennui-ridden baroque pop ballad "Anti-D," in which Blur's "karaoke songs" from "The Universal" have been replaced by the Wombats' own songs, which are better than "citalopram" and "to be prescribed as freely as any decongestants." The song, like the rest This Modern Glitch, makes the case for the Wombats as both rock stars and fools in their own pop star sitcom.Britain’s Wombats are throwing a dance party, and desperately want you to join in the festivities. Frontman Matthew Murphy, an avowed skewer of pop culture trends since 2007's A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation, retains his humorously cynical yet wide-eyed lyrical gaze, which brings to mind both Peter Sellers' and Ray Davies' personas of comedic intellectuals relenting to the debauched party atmosphere around them, which they don't quite approve of but can no longer ignore. Mixing the literate, biting social critique of Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner with Blur frontman Damon Albarn's jaded eye for ennui in the modern world, the Wombats have crafted their own would-be classic 21st century masterpiece. The Wombats' 2011 sophomore effort, This Modern Glitch finds the gleefully cynical Brit trio delivering a batch of catchy, immediately memorable dance-rock tracks the likes of which haven't been heard since the glory days of Blur and '90s Cool Britannia. The Wombats - Our Perfect Disease (Plastic Plates Remix)ģ5. The Wombats - Techno Fan (Diplo Remix)ģ4. The Wombats - Techno Fan (Afrojack Extended Club Remix)ģ3. The Wombats - Jump into the Fog (Crystal Fighters Remix)ģ2. The Wombats - Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves) ģ1. The Wombats - Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves) ģ0. The Wombats - Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves) Ģ9. The Wombats - Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves) Ģ8. The Wombats - Techno Fan (This Acoustic Glitch)Ģ7. The Wombats - Jump into the Fog (This Acoustic Glitch)Ģ6. The Wombats - Anti-D (This Acoustic Glitch)Ģ5. The Wombats - Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves) Ģ4. The Wombats - Shock Goodbyes and P45'sĢ3. The Wombats - Schumacher the Champagneġ7. The Wombats - Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves)ġ0.