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I have all the time in the world for MC Lars, the
man is extremely cool and full of talent, he has
more celebrity friends than your average MySpace
scene kid has online friends and you can clearly
see that just by seeing how many people guest on
his latest album ‘This Gigantic Robot Kills’.
‘This Gigantic Robot Kills’ is the
first album MC Lars has released in three years
and it also happens to be his 7th full length
album and is being released on the 20th April
on his Own record label Horris Records which is
now twinned with Jaret Reddick from Bowling For
Soup’s new imprint, Crappy Records.
The album opens with ‘Where Ya Been Lars?’,
the tracks a slow paced introduction to the album
and also an introduction to Lars’s life
for the people who don’t know much about
him as he drop lines about what he has done in
the past and name drops people he has met it sure
makes an interesting listen.
The song is followed up with a proper song in
the form of the extremely bouncy and melodic ‘True
Players For Real, which features Al Yankovic from
Wheatus, the song is about how Lars has made it
as an artist and is a song about Lars’s
life with his rapping about more things he has
done such as having ADHD at the age of three,
and name checking the NME for saying his single
is rubbish, the song is well up beat and one of
the best songs on the album.
There are some proper geeky tracks on the album
such as ‘Guitar Hero Hero (Beating Guitar
Hero Doesn’t Make You Slash)’, the
song starts with the authentic guitar hero sounds
and then soon after blasts off into a really upbeat
fast paced poppy punk chorus about beating Slash
and pressing various different buttons on the
Guitar Hero controller, there are some really
good but geeky lyrics within the song such as
“Being Call Of Duty doesn’t mean your
aim is good, being Wii gold doesn’t make
you Tiger Woods, Beating Apples to Apples doesn’t
make you a farmer, watching UFC won’t make
you any harder” the lyrics are genius and
could only be written by a true geek, isn’t
that right Lars? Anyway the song features Perry
Gripp of Nerf Herder and also Paul Gilbert of
Mr. Big which helps create the up beats feel it
has.
The other really geeky track is ‘O.G. Original
Gamer’, the song is more like the earlier
MC Lars stuff with the way that the song is a
full on hip hop track, the song features MC Frontalot
and Johnathan Coulton and features the most geekiest
lyrics I have ever come across about playing Super
Smash Brothers, Doom, Nintendogs, the old NES
controller and so much fun, it may be geeky but
it’s a whole lot of fun and takes a lot
of talent to write lyrics like this.
There are so many good tracks on the album and
some of my favourites are ‘It’s Not
Easy (Being Green) just for the fact it’s
a pure upbeat track with a major infectious chorus
and also the album title track ‘This Gigantic
Robot Kills’ it’s a pure upbeat ska
punk track that features The Suburban Legends
and MC Bat Commander of The Aquabats and features
some great lyrics of “Back before Gwen Stefani
started rapping with Pharrell, Gas cost $1.15,
and Goldfinger could sell, Billy was obsessed
with third-wave ska, The Mighty Bosstones, Real
Big Fish, Less Than Jake, he’s seen them
all, He longed for a time when even Bill Clinton
played the sax on the White House lawn, and kids
wore shades and checkered slacks” and then
things get even more upbeat for the melodic chorus
of “This gigantic robot kills, he’s
gonna come down the block, he’s going to
fire at will”.
Now MC Lars has a sound that appeals to wide
range of people from Emo’s, Rap fans, Punk
fans, Pop fans and even geeks who love computer
games, War hammer figures etc, if you have been
a fan of MC Lars from the start then you will
know how much he has changed over the years but
he is currently in his element and at his personal
best ‘This Gigantic Robot Kills’ may
have been a three year wait but it has been well
worth it, I could listen to it all day every day
forever and never get bored.
‘This Gigantic Robot Kills’ is a good
example of what you can do with a laptop and your
own thoughts.
5/5
Review by Trigger |
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MC Lars (Vocals, Laptop, Electronics)
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1. Where Ya Been Lars?
2. True Player For Real (Featuring "Weird Al"
Yankovic And Wheatus)
3. Hipster Girl
4. It's Not Easy (Being Green) (Featuring Pierre Bouvier
Of Simple Plan)
5. This Gigantic Robot Kills (Featuring Suburban Legends
And The Mc Bat Commander Of The Aquabats)
6. No Logo (Featuring Jesse Dangerously)
7. 35 Laurel Drive
8. Twenty-Three (Featuring Amie Miriello)
9. Guitar Hero Hero (Beating Guitar Hero Does Not Make
You Slash) (Featuring Parry Gripp Of Nerf Herder
And Paul Gilbert Of Mr. Big)
10. O.G. Original Gamer (Featuring Mc Frontalot And
Jonathan Coulton)
11. We Have Arrived (Featuring K.Flay, Ytcracker And
The Former Fat Boys)
12. White Kids Aren't Hyphy
13. Hey There Ophelia (Featuring Gabe Saporta Of Cobra
Starship And Brett Anderson Of The Donnas)
(Lord It's Hard To Be Happy When You're Not Using)
14. The Metric System |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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