French house producer Vitalic's first album is a weird and fascinating combination of heavy techno and aggressive noise that almost brings to mind heavy metal. Later the Fuck Buttons would expand and improve on this sound, but Vitalic's music is more mainstream and would undoubtedly work better in a club. It's dance music you can headbang to. Daft Punk might party hard, but Vitalic is undoubtedly angrier and parties harder. Vitalic is like Daft Punk's louder, dumber older brother (Following that comparison, Burial could be called Daft Punk's younger, more depressed brother). The album is built around the gigantic bangers "La Rock" and "Poney" parts one and two. Both of these are excellent--some of the decade's best dance music. There are also some shorter, weirder tracks, like the opening "Polkamatic" and the closing "Valletta Fanfares", which in its incessant hi-hat pounding seems to presage Major Lazer. So, is this album a classic? No. It's fairly disposable. Is it fun, and worth sitting down and listening to for 50 minutes? Absolutely. I don't know how much value it has outside of a dance club, but inside one, it kills.
MY RATING:
7.0
Vitalic - "Poney Pt. 1"
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