{"id":6502,"date":"2013-03-12T16:22:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T16:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=6502"},"modified":"2013-03-12T16:22:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T16:22:25","slug":"boys-noize-out-of-the-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/03\/12\/boys-noize-out-of-the-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys Noize &#8211; Out of the Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2013\/03\/12\/boys-noize-out-of-the-black\/attachment\/6019429\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6503\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6503\" alt=\"boys noize\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/6019429-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Alex Ridha\u2019s first album as Boys Noize gave us 2007\u2019s <em>Oi Oi Oi<\/em>.<!--more--> It came at a time when a Daft Punk resurgence was underway and other electronic groups, namely Justice and Digitalism, were all riding the wave. He had a bit of a misstep with 2009\u2019s much less intense <em>Power<\/em>, but it appears that <em>Out of the Black<\/em> is the happy median between his previous albums and it shows Boys Noize finding his sound \u2026 sort of. The first five cuts are incredibly infectious and will definitely keep the party and drugs going (see \u201cXTC\u201d). All these tracks could easily have found a place on <em>Oi Oi Oi<\/em>. Things get a little strange in the second half of the album where the fluidity is completely lost as the oddly gangster <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wp-Rl5F77pQ\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cCircus Full of Clowns\u201d<\/a> creeps up on you. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KuMFr0p1RFI\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cStop\u201d<\/a> is a full blown rip off of Daft Punk\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Gbb8kZw-xRg\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cRollin\u2019 and Scratchin\u2019\u201d<\/a> and \u201cI\u2019ll House You (feat. Snoop Dogg)\u201d is a silly-ass move for an electronic artist, which sounds straight up ridiculous. The highs on this album are when the music speaks for itself, like in the purely instrumental \u201cMissle,\u201d and does not ride the coattails of Snoop Dogg or any other influences. Thankfully the highs are plentiful enough that this album deserves to be checked out if you are into the high energy, party starter electro. (Boys Noize Records,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boysnoize.com\/\">boysnoize.com<\/a>) <strong>Scott Wolfe<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Ridha\u2019s first album as Boys Noize gave us 2007\u2019s Oi Oi Oi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[307,1045],"class_list":["post-6502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-electronic","tag-ulteriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}