Love the Future
(Star Trak)
Release Date: 04/21/2009
For a couple of geniuses, these Harvard grads sure need a smack in the head. Yes, they’re overachievers: Their demo sparked a bidding war between Pharrell Williams’ and Kanye West’s labels, and their full-length debut—anchored by sunny ’60s-style pop festooned with strings and heavy-handed synths—also includes a Portugese track, a classical-music interlude and (enough already!) a tap-dance routine. But singer D.A. Wallach wants you to know that, despite his precociousness, he still gets laid as much as the next lunkhead. “I’ve been waiting so long that it hurts,” he admits, and Love the Future is loaded with that special misogyny reserved for late-blooming geeks. These guys love hearing a good “porn-star tale,” scoring with “drunk and high girls” and hiring “a first-rate whore,” but they’re “not tryin’ to mess with no sluts.” Lucky sluts—at least they get off the hook.
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