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It can also be a funny, brilliant thing that makes you want to dance on clouds, wear daisies in your eyes and various other silly actions. Dan Deacon's Spiderman of the Rings is in the funny, silly camp. His talent is obvious enough, the man could probably compose anything he took his fancy to, but what's better than the sound of sheer, gleeful joy? Only children should sound this happy and free but Dan Deacon obviously doesn't think so. This album makes me feel a little ashamed. I'd hate it if it wasn't so wonderful. Any song that samples Woody Woodpecker's laugh should be the most annoying thing on earth. The album's first track does just that but mutates it into something entirely different, disturbing at first, then nothing seems to matter, Dan Deacon has a hold of your brain and is determined to give it a good scrub. It's anti-ageing cream for the mind. Spiderman of the Rings is for the most part fast, electronic music. In a way nothing here is real. Anything goes, as long at it smiles and thinks and sees the unadulterated, sappy joy in simply being alive. Call it future shock, absurdist techno, whatever you like, it doesn't seem to matter. When toddlers pogo through delight this could well be what's playing in their strange little heads.
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