It isn't human epiphany; it's closer to a note-by-note construction of sense, undergirded by the idea that you have to believe in emotion before you're capable of feeling  Full text...

A forty-five minute excursion through the mind of dance-addled hipsters, rock star wannabes and downhearted loners holed up in their bedrooms with samplers and stacks of dusty vinyl  Full text...

MacLean the student is now doing the "robot rock" thing better than the masters  Full text...

Less Than Human lives up to the production duo's reputation for making quality dance records, but it also explores enough outside territory so as not to feel like the next album out on the conveyor belt  Full text...

Less Than Human plays like the most focused and consistent DFA-affiliated album  Full text...

Less Than Human plays like the most focused and consistent DFA-affiliated album  Full text...

Still, until there are humans out there making music like this robot, we'll settle for it  Full text...

Less Than Human overcomes its title with strong songwriting and great production  Full text...

The Juan Maclean's debut album Less Than Human may be the closest that DFA records will get to a mission statement without the unsightly clutter of words  Full text...

The only regret about this record is its relative brevity, a complaint you would rarely hear in conjunction with a dance based album, seeing as most are half an hour too long!   Full text...

The debut from former Six Finger Satellite leader John Maclean mixes Brooklyn indie disco, Kraftwerk pop and brightly colored Aphex Twin squiggles into an au courant package both charming and danceable  Full text...

Still, we may not have had a classic Daft Punk album in 2005, but at least we've got half a classic daft punk-funk album now, eh?   Full text...