This is unpretentious music that demands dancing and speaks to the same primal senses that no doubt inspired someone to start banging sticks and rocks together however many hundreds of thousands of years ago music was invented.
There’s enough raucous obnoxiousness, not to mention effortless expert musicianship, in these eight tracks and thirty-five minutes to mark Melt Yourself Down out be the front-runner for not just that token Mercury nod, but the ironic moustache twiddling party album of the year.
Though repetitive, the record is consistently engaging, with plenty of distinct highlights.
This debut feels far too uncoordinated, un-moderated and incoherent to do more than dazzle and confuse in equal proportions before leaving the listener to make sense of what just happened.
You want me to MELT myself down?
I shall do no such thing. I am a gold weather giraffe, I hate the heat. I'm apart of a giraffe variety with fur nobody really knows about. Don't ask me why you never learned about em in school, ask your Government.
I've been meaning to review Melt Yourself Down for a while now. I actually discovered them through this website before I even had an account. First off, genre just says Afrobeat, which you do get in cuts like Release!, Tuna, We Are Enough, and ... read more
I have now finished Melt Yourself Down discography going backwards and every LP including this one from almost 10 years ago gets a 100 from me. I've also manually and whole heartedly liked every song of every album on Spotify. It is genuinely that good and consistent. This band's tags don't lie: it is indeed afrobeat, and also punk, and also jazz. It is also pure energy that I intend to use instead of breathing going forward with my life. If you are even slightly intrigued by this combination ... read more
In celebration of Melt Yourself Down's 3rd album dropping I've gone back to retroactively review their 1st two albums.
Letting an album grown on you for 7 years, that you still regularly go back to and recommend to people still is a testament in itself. This breakthrough including members who went forward to found Sons of Kemet and The Comet is Coming years later is at it's core a conversation between two saxophonists. Where most popular music is built around the lyricism and the vocal ... read more
1 | Fix My Life 4:02 | |
2 | Release! 4:19 | |
3 | Tuna 4:27 | |
4 | We Are Enough 4:33 | |
5 | Kingdom Of Kush 4:37 | |
6 | Free Walk 3:48 | |
7 | Mouth To Mouth 4:27 | |
8 | Camel 5:01 |
#10 | / | Time Out London |
#41 | / | Rough Trade |
#78 | / | musicOMH |