SMD's excellent debut album as a stand-alone group, Attack Decay Sustain Release, is for dancing, not moshing-- especially if that's dancing in front of your bedroom mirror to the radio, like Tony Manero, primping before hitting the town.  Full text...

This 10-track album doesn’t have a single track that’s over five minutes long, making the whole affair clock in at just a little over 35 minutes. It’s this kind of to-the-point frankness that gives the album its push—each number never outstays its welcome. Each track simply does its business and then leaves the dancefloor, sweaty and satisfied.  Full text...

Attack Decay Sustain Release will be an underwhelming, bittersweet disappointment to fans who expected, and rightfully so, that this was to be one of the best dance albums of the last couple of years.  Full text...

Attack Decay Sustain Release isn't imaginative enough to top any album of the year awards, but as far as supposed 'indie-friendly' dance collections go, it's not half bad.  Full text...

Consequently, Attack Decay Sustain Release is merely a disappointing sequence of interesting ideas, inexpertly executed.   Full text...

We get 30 minutes of low-budget attention-deficit-disco that requires serious imbibing of snakebite & black to make it tolerable, let alone danceable. Simian Mobile Disco have attempted to inveigle “dance music” into the aesthetic of messy, clumsy indie-rock without immersing themselves within it and understanding it; as a result they slam some second-hand signifiers together wantonly and end up sounding like witless Daft Punk rip-offs.   Full text...