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Even if your only religion involves band t-shirts and b-side vinyl, consider for a moment an afternoon organ recital at your local cathedral as a perfect, albeit unlikely, refuge from today’s folk-pop play list: a salvation, if not from evil, then from present day independent music’s fuzzy instruments, vague lyrics and disaffected warbles, so often praised by the disaffected critics at that God of indie webzines, known, perhaps fittingly, as Pitchforkmedia.com...
...serious light, rock bands have benefited from the help of dance labels and club remixes of their songs. It is onto this scene that Tim Goldsworthy and James Murphy have become so prominent for their stable of dance-rock artists and their production work as the DFA. Their vinyl remixes have been club fodder in NYC and around the world now for more than two years, and DFA #2 marks a milestone in their careers; two discs longer than their first compilation, the set reveals their increasingly prolific catalog at a glance, and the outstanding nature of their production...
...ultra-relevant blend of rock and dance this music has its most sophisticated, engaging, and above all else, intelligent producers in the form of the DFA. Their new release saves a lot of vinyl in its wake, and is an electrifying jolt from the most relevant rock genre of our day and its foremost spokesmen...
...supremely primitive recording session lasted only two hours, and the band relied on only one microphone dangling overhead as a one-track Ampex tape recorder captured thirteen songs from the Electras’ repertoire. They took the recording to the custom manufacturing division of RCA Records and pressed 500 vinyl copies of the self-titled release...
Amazingly, copies of the original vinyl album that sold for $5 at shows back in the ’60s now sell for as much as $2,500 on Ebay...