Smooth Noodle Maps

Devo's original "goodbye" album can still strike a chord in the heart of any Devo fan, especially one who followed their narrative from the beginning. All of their releases up to this point have differing flavors of divisiveness, and even the most popular albums can cause polarizing opinions track-by-track. "Smooth Noodle Maps" shares this commonality, but there's something different. When one listens, they might catch on to a new sense of urgency - a frenetic bend on Devo's ... read more

And here we have an almost entirely uninteresting alt dance album. Idk what to say, i didn't hate anything but i just found it dull, and devoid of the charm that made me love their earlier output. The synthesizer work is tacky, intolerable at worst, like the last track, annoying at best, and the drum machine programming is so repetitive and painfully 80s i just checked out by the middle of the album. This sounded insanely dated on the day of release, that's how terrible the production ... read more