Dim Mak Records
2003
We Are From Nowhere
About This Album
Over the past couple of years, the dance-punk genre has resurfaced and grown with virus-like speed, resulting in scores of bands that are as infatuated with dark, arty noise as they are with the dancefloor. Despite all the competition, Dance Disaster Movement still have plenty to offer to the style, based on their debut album We Are from Nowhere. Unlike the taut precision that guides some of their contemporaries, the duo opts for a loose, raw sound that falls more on the punk side of the equation and balances its formidable noise with a surprisingly soft side. "I Want Your Sass," the opening track on We Are from Nowhere, exemplifies Dance Disaster Movement's sound, with siren-like guitars, pulsing synths, stuttering, paranoid vocals, and forceful-yet-complicated drumming that ebb and flow into dreamy, reflective passages. It's a simple contrast, but that just makes it all the more effective; even though the rest of the songs on We Are from Nowhere more or less just repeat this pattern, it still sounds fresh for most of the album. Even within this rather strict formula, the band comes up with some appealing variations on it, ranging from the extreme angularity of "C'Est la Vie" and "Got the Piece of Mind (Shoot Me in the F*cking Head)," which stretch Dance Disaster Movement's explosive/implosive dynamics to the breaking point, to "The Shots," an extended jam that reveals a prettier, poppier side to their sound.
Track List (try tracks 1,3,4,7 and 8)

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