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August 20, 2008
Video: YACHT - "Summer Song"
I was actually a bit disappointed to see that DFA Records, whose braintrust have had the best ears for dance music talent this decade, had signed Portland jokesters YACHT. In his work with the Blow, Jona Bechtolt managed to craft a few winning minimal tracks, but without Khaela Maricich's naive vocals on top of them, his YACHT work struck me as simultaneously thin and smugly self-satisfied. The blatant Rolling Stones' groove jacking of single "See a Penny (Pick it Up)" was no exception. But shit, maybe I'm wrong. The debut DFA single, "the Summer Song" sounds both like a proper summer club anthem and a proper DFA single. The not-as-clever-as-it-thinks-it-is Tapeheads homage above makes me hold my reservations close to the chest, but my interest is certainly piqued.
Posted by Jeff Klingman at August 20, 2008 07:00 PM
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No shit you're totally wrong!
Posted by: Peanut at September 1, 2008 05:00 PM
