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Iain Mew: Like “Dibby Dibby Sound” crossed with “Take That”! Well, kind of, since where “Take That” played on reclaiming a phrase from its pop culture associations and then throwing in those associations on top, “Dr. Who!” barely even gestures at the show (it’s called Doctor Who, for a start) but offers little other meaning for the phrase. Instead, it uses its recognisability as a catchphrase to hang quickfire nonsense around. It’s a fun idea, and it that more than works thanks to both Sneakbo and a production that provides the sonic energy to bludgeon through barriers of mere sense.
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Kat Stevens: Better than pretty much all of the last Matt Smith series, but not as good as the 50th Anniversary Special.
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Anthony Easton: An aggressive house track with little or no connection to the British TV show, put together by a pan-European collection of A-list DJs. This is delightfully unrelenting.
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Brad Shoup: Forget the title, please: it’s all about those hooted whos. This being a pop single, the programming steps back in the verses for Sneakbo’s general flex. But man, the corny menace of the refrain is intoxicating. There, the dialing back serves the feeling.
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Scott Mildenhall: Not as fun as it’s probably meant to be, because nothing really happens. Sneakbo’s previous pop moves have tended to have more going for them — “Ring A Ling” in particular possessing all the joy this lacks. Often a two-and-a-half minute radio edit feels ungenerous, but it barely has the ideas for half that time. Imagine “Badman Riddim”, but boring.
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Juana Giaimo: Less than three minutes long is not short enough.
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Alfred Soto: i.e. let’s assemble the parts of every dance cliché of the last twenty years (acceleration, sampled party horn, house beat, nonsense catch phrase) but strip them of power, humor, and rhythm.
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Daniel Montesinos-Donaghy: After Faul & Wad Ad took on PNAU’s “Baby” earlier this week, I wondered if we were entering an unnecessary period of nostalgia for the first great blogging era, back when house and rap and pop and rock and indie and electro could all function under the same umbrella. It was an exciting time, one of the first signs that we would become more eclectic with our music tastes, and using large swathes of “Baby” recalls its success as it passed from Blogspot page to Blogspot page. Tujamo and Plastic Funk’s “Dr Who!” feels like a throwback to Mad Decent’s early dominance of the blog circuit, and the hundreds of artists that popped up, jockeying the label’s global party aesthetic. Despite the presence of grime MC/potential Pokemon species Sneakbo, this sounds more like that era’s knockoffs than that era’s freshest.
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