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X Marks Destination (Bonus Tracks),The Whip

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X Marks Destination (Bonus Tracks)

The Whip

Released 2008

   
Fire 05:11 8,941 plays
   
Frustration 04:51 8,307 plays
   
Save My Soul 05:09 7,963 plays

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Trash 06:20 30,197plays
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Frustration 04:51 8,307plays
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Fire 05:11 8,941plays
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Save My Soul 05:09 7,963plays
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Sirens 04:17 7,286plays
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Divebomb 05:39 5,689plays
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Blackout 06:10 45,903plays
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Muzzle #1 04:50 6,522plays
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Sister Siam 04:43 5,962plays
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Dubsex 04:10 4,750plays
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Blackout (Shinichi Osawa Remix) 05:40 5,408plays
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Muzzle # 1 (Bloody Beetroots Remix) 04:06 5,571plays
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Sister Siam (Bitchee Bitchee Ya Ya Ya Remix) 04:49 3,385plays
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Trash (Crookers Remix) 06:01 7,851plays
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Sister Siam (James Rutledge Remix) 04:35 3,245plays

album review

The Whip straddle the electronic/rock divide with a wider stance than most of their late-00s hipster-dance contemporaries. Their debut may be titled X Marks Destination, but their stylistic aim isn't as deadly focused as that might suggest: targets veer across the map from the romantically epic pop of "Sirens," with its a rose-tinted, Hollywood-ready sheen, to the gritty, instrumental electro of breakout single "Divebomb," which layers hypnotically swirling synth bleeps with overdriven, Justice-style guitars to fashion an effectively frothy if vaguely perfunctory banger. The bulk of the album falls somewhere in between these poles, lashing feverish, fizzy electronic workouts to guitars-forward, quasi-punkish pop slabs that try, mostly successfully, to have it both ways. These work best when the melodies are upfront and gleaming, as on "Sister Siam" and the swooning, unflinchingly New Order-ish "Frustration." They suffer significantly when the obnoxiously inane lyrics become too prominent, particularly on the execrable "Save My Soul," or whenever the band latches on to empty, ad nauseum catch phrases like "lights down in the dark" or "I can feel the heat" or "I wanna be trash" (a curiously dated, "Loser"-like grunge-era sentiment, albeit married to a pummeling post-post-punk stomp.) And otherwise they tend to fade into indistinct, lackluster neutrality. Still, even if their would-be blazes burn with a reflected fire and a somewhat mannered, over-familiar hand-me-down hedonism, the Whip are at least competent synthesists of simple pleasures, with an unexpected sweet tooth and enough vitality to offer the blog-house constituency some A-grade kindling for late-decade dancefloors. [The four bleepy electro remixes appended to the U.S. edition are at once more thrilling and more tiresome than the album proper, injecting a good deal more aggression and strangeness than the original versions manage to muster.] ~ K. Ross Hoffman, Rovi

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  • Electro-rock at it's finest!

    By cs1883/13/2009 02:05:55

    I'd say this ranks on my top 10 albums of 2008, and I'm glad Zune has promoted this band to death through Ignition.  They honestly deserve more attention in the US.

    Recommended if you already like other new-wave post-punk-revival groups such as Justice, Franz Ferdinand, The Rapture, or The Faint.

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