Greg Fenton reviews MADMADMAD – Run – Def Pressé
Ideas and emotions get twisted and crazy listening to MADMADMAD. I guess the clue might be contained in the name. But how to describe the music is wonderfully difficult, not being told exactly how to perform, to fit convention, not sitting still long enough to approximate a guess at what’s about to happen next. Rhythms appear out of nowhere, sounds clash, rattle and explicitly explode. It’s the perfect mess of riotous excitement, linking to the past while also exciting the future like you are supplanting early 80’s Tom Tom Club alongside more radical Electro/ Hip Hop into a hot mangle of breathy contemporary fever. If that makes any sense, perhaps it’s easier to enjoy the music for yourself.
Run, the title track is after all an exceptional jam of blazing bass, fiery drums and heavenly voices inviting the word party in a spray of loud letters and excessive volume. You feel breathless by the time Spin Wave flips out, ending in a disorientating rush. And that’s even before you hear the first two.
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