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Stereo Total
DO THE BAMBI
(Kill Rock Stars)
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This multi-national, pan-lingual, pop-art duo are the non-threatening human face of globalization: over a handful of albums and singles, some issued in the US, some not, singers and multi-instrumentalists Françoise Cactus (she’s French) and Brezel Göring (he’s German) have mashed up whatever they’ve found for sale in the world’s dollar bins, making cosmopolitan pop with punk’s DIY spirit. On their sixth album, Cactus and Göring sound as if they’d sat around in a recording studio (or a bedroom with a laptop) making songs out of the first things that came into their minds. "La Douce Humanité" is built on a rudimentary wah-wah guitar groove and not much else. "I Am Naked" pulses like video-game music and follows up the title phrase with "So what?" The title cut seems to want to build a dance around the album’s title deer, but it stalls at a mildly participatory electro-boogie. Stereo Total’s trick may lie less in the execution than in the concept — their DIY spirit could do with some compromising by Timbaland or Butch Walker. But their idea factory is stocked to capacity, and its doors are wide open. (Stereo Total headline tonight, May 12, at T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline Street in Central Square; call 617-492-BEAR.)
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