Dave Segal gave Gang Gang Dance’s new album Sain Dymphna a four star review in this week’s paper. An excerpt:

Saint Dymphna is a glossier-produced affair than God’s Money, but GGD still come at you from oblique angles; applying gloss to them is like shellacking a gargoyle. They still Taser your categorizing muscles, with sounds as slippery and unpredictable as a jellyfish crossed with a butterfly. Initially, “First Communion” sounds like a blatant stab for a club hit, as Bougatsos’s gremlin-ized vocals soar over space-age Afrobeat. But when you try to imagine people dancing to this track, you can’t help seeing limbs pretzeling into painful configurations. When East London grime MC Tinchy Stryder motormouths along with Bougatsos’s coquettish cooing over a Terry-(not Teddy)-Riley-goes-two-step backdrop on “Princes,” puzzled looks rather than busted moves come to mind. Further expectation-shattering occurs on “Vacuum,” which sounds like My Bloody Valentine circa Loveless submerged in molasses and hectic ’80s-video-arcade ambience. “Inners Pace” begins as an abstract percussion and field-recording excursion and then morphs into a warped electro-pop/gamelan hybrid.

Gang Gang Dance play the Triple Door tonight with Marnie Stern and Growing.

Also this evening, via Up & Comings:

El Ten Eleven, Quiet by Ten, the Whispertown 2000, Flashes of Quincey, Val Emmich
(El Corazón) Los Angeles duo El Ten Eleven (Kristian Dunn and Tim Fogarty, the rhythm section from the SoftLightes) became inspired by the rambunctious electro-rock of acts like Justice, Boys Noize, and Soulwax, and decided to create their own brand of it with, as Dunn says, “real instruments and looping pedals.” The result, as heard on the new mini-album These Promises Are Being Videotaped, is ironically slicker than the sound made by the aforementioned computer-centric groups. El Ten Eleven come off as a less distinctive Trans Am—a post-rock/electronic collision that’s by no means bad, but neither is it terribly exciting (nice cover of “Paranoid Android,” though). DAVE SEGAL

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