More on: Does It Offend You, Yeah?

Label: Virgin
Release Date: 10/03/08
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There's currently a big robot-shaped hole on planet pop as Daft Punk have beamed back up to their space ship to clean their space helmets and work out how they'll spend all the cash which Kanye West made for them. Thankfully punctuation mark loving popsters Does It Offend You, Yeah? have borrowed the French duo's vocoder and manfully volunteered to fill the void.

On 'We Are Rockstars', frontman Morgan Quaintance speaks of a world where "there's no place to go, to be on your own" but everyone ignores him as the vocals on the track are distorted to the point of unintelligibility. This doesn't matter, as 'We Are Rockstars' isn’t a track which was designed to analysed. It was purpose built to sound ferocious and thrilling when played at excessively loud volume to a room/field/stadium full of people. It succeeds in its mission.

By combining the 21st century's dance instrument of choice, the cowbell, with those age-old favourites, the distorted bassline and loud guitars, DIOYY have created fantastically dirty chunk of squelchy electropop. Furrow-browed naysayers will complain that the world already has more than enough vocodered up rock/dance crossover tracks and that this sort of thing stopped being interesting years ago. They might have a point but come festival time this is the track you'll still be thrilled to jump around to after a long, hard day traipsing around the site trying to avoid hearing The Kooks.

John McCarthy

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