Sunday 10.26.08: THE DEATH SET @ echo

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Built around Siera’s screeching, self-referential vocals, and a wall of feedback, songs like lead single “Negative Thinking” and “Intermission” cram all of the best parts of ’80s new wave and ’77 Brit punk into two minutes or less. That’s the thing about The Death Set. They seem to be having fun at their own expense, embracing skits and a rapper’s bravado throughout the record, and that’s partly why one shouldn’t take this album too seriously. “MFDS” and the aforementioned “Intermission” give shouts to themselves repeatedly, which, oddly enough, works, creating a sound both old and new, underground and mainstream, all with a playful wink. – Tiny Mix Tapes