Reviewed by Eric Saeger
To Westerners, Japan is sugar-rush spazz central, bursting with frenetic android babes like 5678s and all sorts of metal. DJ duo Boom Boom Satellites fall into this pack by myna-birding Prodigy; with the pair’s crashy guitars and cybernetic predelictions they’re to hard post-punk what Pendulum is to metal: an improvement. This best-of ensconces stuff that’s been heard in the US but, more importantly, stuff that never was, like Kick It Out, a no-brain old-school rocker that’s equal parts Iggy, ELO and Justice, in other words Prodigy trying to fight off the Misfits, in other words a perfect iPod commercial soundtrack, which points up the difficult, completely avoided dialectic on whether modern commercial is rockin’ stuff or a huge cultural disservice. When stuff rocks like this, though, the “just shut off your brain and dig it” argument isn’t a total waste of breath.
Grade: B
