Paul MacInnes 

Major Lazer: Guns Don’t Kill People … Lazers Do

Major Lazer are guaranteed to get white people of the western world dancing badly, writes Paul MacInnes
  
  


A collaboration between clubland cardinals Diplo and Switch, Major Lazer have arrived with an album of electro dancehall guaranteed to get white people of the western world dancing badly. Clamping the effects and tempo of electro house to dancehall's rhythms and rhymes, Guns don't Kill People ... is a party album heavy on the bassline, the echo and the sexual content. It's also irresistible, especially on more inventive compositions such as Hold the Line, with its impressions of Ennio Morricone and samples of vibrating mobiles. The album sometimes feels like a cherrypicking trawl through 40 years of Jamaican musical history, but it's all done with such energy and flair that it's difficult not to obey instructions and shake your bottom frenetically.

 

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