YO MAJESTY, DOES IT OFFEND YOU YEAH?, FLESHTONE, DJ BEYONDA
(Rotture, 315 SE 3rd) Okay, so points are deducted for excessive punctuation and evoking Austin Powers, but Does It Offend You, Yeah?, for the most part, don’t. “We Are Rockstars” is a convincing declaration, switching abruptly but satisfyingly from cowbell and synth gnarl to an insanely hooky vocoder-ed chorus. Elsewhere on debut album You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into, the band flirts with pretty vapid runway rock (“Dawn of the Dead”), Daft Punk-ed electro vamps (“Weird Science”), and Rapture-ous punk-funk howl (“Let’s Make Out”). Nothing impresses anywhere near as much as that chorus on “We Are Rockstars” (you are humming it right now), but I bet it all looks pretty good on the dance floor. ERIC GRANDY

MP3:
Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Dawn Of The Dead