dom passantino, your shipment of EPIC FAIL has been delivered. ditto for the "old musical journalists lol" article or whatever the hell that article was supposed to be about...

Really, really like it. Even more so because it recommends one of my favourite films. Good work, DiS

The Beat That My Heart Skipped really is worth watching, too.

I would just like to commend the use of the phrase "Trying to find a good idea executed well is akin to finding a Suicide Girl that wasn’t touched by her uncle as a child."

I like it.

well I like it quite a bit...

I do not regret my purchase!

but it is up its own arse quite alot.

Not really sure i'm comfortable with paedophilia jokes being used in this context. I guess you thought it'd make you sound really edgy and cool to shoehorn that in there, but firstly, you're not Chris Morris, and secondly, ITS A MUSIC REVIEW.
Not to mention it was just a very clumsy metaphor anyway.
My main problem with this review besides that though is your key argument against DLS&SP seems to be their smug and arrogant attitude, yet this review reeks of arrogance and a misplaced sense of superiority.
You are enormously condescending towards not just the artist in question, and the various others you mention, but also the readership of this site. "Maybe to you, an extended metaphor comparing doomed love to the career trajectory of an old-school comedian is something that should exist outside of the confines of a freshman creative writing seminar."
Why write that?!
This review sucks.

I don't like Dom liked writing it, never mind listening to it.

I have not heard the album so I can't pass judgement but a 1/10 might be harsh. We shall see I suppose.

Funny review, in places, but seriously, what the fuck? There are a couple of clunky moments on the record, granted, but on the whole, it's brilliant, articulate and full of cracking ideas. worth the price for Magician's Assistant alone.

Plus didn't this come out about two weeks ago?

What?

the point about Sage Francis is ridiculous?
I mean, what makes you think he has disregarded a black audience? He hasn't really - maybe he just hasn't followed some predetermined path that DiS think every rapper should take that doesn't mean he hates/disregards an audience.
And why should hip-hop (or ANY MUSIC) be about any one audience.
And he doesn't 'plug his stuff on the alt rock circuit' really if you pay attention, he's pretty heavily in with Anticon and tours with hip-hop artists all the time.

All time weakest point in a review.

You obviously don't have a broad enough mind to accept what DLSvsSP are trying to do. They deserve much higher than a 1/10. DLSvsSP's album, and even "No Commercial Breaks" which was Pip's self pressed album, has had a lot of work put into it so even if you are going to rip the shit out of them, they deserve more than a 1/10 just for effort and for having the bollocks go out there and do what they wanted to do, and possibly more.

Get off your high horse and sort it out. A small child could have written a better review.

that DiS got Passantino to review this

this review will crop up on Metacritic or Wikipedia, and more than likely deter people from buying what is actually quite a solid record.

That is a shame.

Oh well must not be dis cool...

& what is the Ideologic point???? I do not understand what your trying to say there..

I think we can safely disregard his opinion.

I knew it'd be 1/10. Haven't read it but look forward to reading it later.

I don't mind the album btw, Dom's reviews are always good to read.

then they have learnt a valuable lesson in life.

Don't pay attention to reviews. Any attention. Reviews are pointless. Reviewers are pointless.

Still - DvsVcSPD are pretty annoying.

However the review makes my skin crawl. It reeks of self important, mildly racist, inverse snobbery. Quite the worst thing I've actually bothered reading from beginning to end for some time.

I mean that seriously. I don't especially care for Dan Le Sac or Scroobius Pip but what was the point?

By which I mean a review is obviously primarily a guide to someone who might buy an album as to whether it's an album they should buy.

I mean Thou Shalt Not Kill was a real marmite song and obviously someone who disliked it wouldn't want to buy the album. As such this review serves no function - it speaks only to people who wouldn't want to buy it and obviously gives no information whatsoever to someone considering buying it as obviously they wouldn't hate the act as much as you do.

Don't get me wrong - your entitled to your opinion and that's fair enough. But I'm sure this act have had a good press from some DiSers. So what precisely made you want to take the time to spend three quarters of an hour listening to (and however much time writing a review for) an album you were always going to hate. And wouldn't it be far more informative to people who would consider buying the album to get an impression of how good it is from someone with a "neutral but would like it if it were good" perspective.

As it stands there's no objectivity, no information and this review, whilst admittedly mildly amusing, is just a waste of everyone's time.

the anger about the review, the band are SHIT, real SHIT, get over it.

ps. a review, that doesn't have the same opinion as you? Heaven no, what ever next? Get over it.

that the review makes a point of the contradiction in Thou Shalt Not Kill. I'm not particularly keen on the song, yet I thought the contradictions were intentional and the song was supposed to be about not believing whatever you hear without question.

Le Sac must have shagged his Missus.

Having said that, the album disappointed me so much I took it back to the shop.

"forgotten nineties comedian phil kay" is alive and well. going to see him at the knockengorroch festilval this weekend. man's a naked legend

scroobius pip probably listened to Sage before he was on epitaph.

Dom deems himself worthy to pass opinion on this record, but isn't happy that two blokes from the 'Essex commuter belt' have an opinion on what is and isn't in the four elements.
Umm.....presumably if you're not a white middle class boy from the Essex commuter belt, Dom, then you've no right to comment on this record!?

I think it's OK. There are tracks I skip and tracks I love, but this review is pretty ridiculous.

and not even a review

Thou Shall Not Kill is fucking atrocious so a 1/10 is not a surprise.

IMO. I've not heard this album but I do like some of the tunes on the last one, inc. "Thou Shalt Kill". That aside I think this is a really good & thoughtful review. Kudos.

Thanks.

But I have certainly enjoyed the comments for a variety of reasons. Kudos to you all.

9/10

I would like to make a point about this review in relation to my own experiences of this pairs music. For what its worth.

Got free tickets to see them in Glasgow recently and, as with it seems so many of my friends of my age these days, am finding myself swiftly becoming one of the harshest critics of new music, finding almost all of it either too achingly fashionable, outright redundant/done before or simply so willfully obscure as to defy interest.

First spotted Mr. Pip himself standing appreciatively at the back of the crowd watching both support bands with a genuine appreciation and giving them rapturous applause. In fact it was this applause that made me notice him as he was standing right behind me.

He handled the drunken cloyings of numerous loud Glaswegian fans without a hint of annoyance and seemed genuinely appreciative that anyone would take the time to speak to him in even the faintest of positive manners. This in itself is fairly rare, but what I experienced when they took to the stage is even rarer.

I saw a genuinely passionate, skillful, and in places even moving performance. Their stage rapport showed consistently two guys having the times of their lives doing something they believed in, for better or worse, and who the hell is anyone to second guess their credentials and how they got to the point of making the music they do anyway? If you unravel that particular ball of twine for most "classic" bands and review them negatively on that basis you will be missing the point of some of the best music produced in the world for reasons that amount to little more than arrogance and elitist spite.

My problem is not that this reviewer does not like the album, everyone entitled to their own opinion and all that. I love it, but personally if I wanted to tear them to shreds I could criticise the odd clunky lyric, a pervasive element of arrogance (but what band who doesnt genuinely believe what they are doing is worthwhile wont come off as arrogant when caught by the wrong person on the wrong day? Especially by someone with their own misguided preconceptions and pigheaded prejudices before they have touched a keyboard) and Dan Le Sacs particular fondness of certain already over-used and slightly lazy beat effects (Suspect Ableton Live is to blame there), but to do this would be to miss the point and miss the ability of a whole to transcend the sum of its parts.

My problem with this review, (ignoring so many of the things already picked up on by other comments here) is that to build up such a ludicrously overblown steam of negativity (one so big as to dwarf my own truly horrific level of cynical hatred for most new music these days) as to call it not one of, but THE worst album of the year so far (don't even get me started on nominees for that particular list!) in any sense defies belief. Having seen the "glint in the eye" this reviewer missed on stage in front of my own eyes, I can only put this review down to extreme arrogance, a desire to be controversial for the sake of it or simple good old fashioned idiocy.

1/10? I may as well start reading fucking youtube comments for insightful and educated commentary.