Giant Robot gets a preetty nice review! >melody maker 31.5.-6.6.2000 > >GIANT ROBOT: CRUSHING YOU WITH STYLE (CLEARSPOT) > >Crikey! A 60ft Philippa Forrester towering over the world, egging on droids, >as they fight to the clanking metallic death, the prize for the victor a >night of robotic passion with Pips...Hang on, they're a band? Oh, sorry, I >was reviewing the TV spin-off, currently being filmed in my head. > The real Giant Robot are an international funked-up hip-hop hydra, >loosely based in Helsinki (aka "Helsinki Rock City" according to one track >here. Hell, if Kiss could claim Detroit as "rock city"....) And this, their >UK debut, is oddly fantastic. Sounding like a quattro formaggio version on >"Hello Nasty", with a Daft Punk Rocquefort stuffed crust and a Handsome >Modeling School side salad, the likes of "S,M,L,XL" and Mrs Black's Husband" >are big beat chilled-out and slowed-down. > Throw in a couple of radically reworked covers - "Dire Straits" is "Money >For Nothing" given a titanic beat and put through Beck's dance blender and >"Jennifer Kissed Me" is De La Soul-lightful - and you've got the best dance >album of the new century so far. >A BIT LIKE? The second album Bentley Rhythm Ace should have made >**** (4/5)
