- I do not know how to explain this, but I just realized you rarely see dance producers suddenly turning to punk, while it is fairly common to see punk and rockabilly musicians becoming dance aficionados: Andrew Weatherall is a paragon of that trend, but there’s also Liam Howlett (in a way), Moby, Arnaud Rebotini, James Murphy or Juan Maclean to name a few. You can also think now of Canadian Jesse F. Keeler, previously of Death from Above 1979 disco-punk-fueled fame and now MSTRKRFT’s own homme à tout faire and house guru. ‘Work on You’ is the latest single from MSTRKRFT's somehow ill-received ‘The Looks’ album: out of context, ‘Work on You’ can be perceived as inconsequential filtered house, but rightly sequenced, like it was on Cut Copy’s recent ‘Fabric’ mix, it will make you feel like being thoroughly worked on by the 22-year-old, A&F-plaid-boxers-sporting, iron-pumping, six-pack-owning, college-attending, half-nerd half-jock northern Ontario hockey player stud you KNOW you deserve. Fuck the Daft Punk comparisons: more Cher, less Thomas Bangalter, please.
Anyway, for this Modular-licensed single, Para One is on remix duty and is offering the best Boys Noize impersonation you could frankly live without. The real gem, though, comes from MSTRKRFT themselves with the exclusive B-side ‘Community Revolution in Progress’. With a dominating and (less than usual) vocoderized masculine voice exhorting you to ‘move your hips’ and ‘lick your lips’ to what sounds like Belgian New Beat (yay!), intertwined with Tiga’s remix of ‘Washing Up’ (nothing wrong with that), MSTRKRFT just recorded their best track so far and is a good reason enough to never want to hear a punk chord ever again. It will make you want to lick your hips, move your lips, and enjoy anything in between until you feel alright in the morning light.