Shakes - “Disneyland Pt 1″ (YouTube)
We were pretty hot for Shakes a few months ago. Lucky for us… there’s more Shakes love this spring as their Sister Self Doubt ep is being released here in the States on IAMSOUND records. Ah, the familar disco punk sound that we love…
Purchase the Sister Self Doubt ep on iTunes.
Ok, I know I just posted Shakes a couple weeks ago, and it’s way too soon to be doing another post. But this song is just way too good not to go nuts for… and it’s Friday!
“Disneyland Vacation” explodes… it’s totally out of control. We’re digging this track like twenty times more than “Sister Self Doubt” which says a lot considering how much that song kills. Shakes definitely have roots in LCD Soundsystem style dance-punk, but they go way beyond that — they’re a bigger, dancier sound. Love, love the laser guns. That’s so Debbie Deb of them. We need more of that.
Shakes - “Disneyland Vacation� (mp3)
You hopefully already know Shakes (not to be confused with The Shakes), and this is just a friendly reminder and not an introduction. At the very least, you probably already know their spectacular “Fa-Fa-Fa” remix… right?
“Sister Self Doubt” is one of those brilliant-in-a-post-LCD-Soundsystem type tracks, like total guitar driven dance music that hopefully we won’t be tired of anytime soon. This track sounds like a floor ready Rapture remix but like, um, it’s straight up instead.
Hopefully for Shakes sake, they won’t get lumped into or limited by any of that New Rave nonsense. Total tangent but speaking of New Rave: how surprising is that Klaxons album? I’m not sure the Klaxons are worth a full post anymore, but maybe they’re not a one trick pony after all.
Shakes - “Sister Self Doubt� (alternate version)
“Fa-Fa-Fa” is still like the greatest song ever. I could listen to it a million times over times fifty. There’s been pure love for the Shakes version too since it first dropped — though I’m not convinced it trumps Superstar’s mix. Good stuff:
Datarock - “Fa-Fa-Fa� (Shakes remix) (mp3)