So many words have been written about this band on DiS that there just aren’t any straws left to clutch at. Musically, ‘Tonto’ is some way gone towards being impossible to describe; with foregone, bandish reference points at least. What comes most immediately to mind are the noodly parts of Yes songs that Mike Diver plays me, like ‘Long Distance Runaround’, but less bloated, obviously, and exactly 83 per cent less Top Gear.
Words like ‘widdly’, ‘weedling’ and ‘reedy’ are dismissed from the page at boredom’s whim; instead I’ll write about how this song sounds like a plague of mutant insects – locusts, probably – trapped inside human bodies like Will Smith’s hunting them. If Will Smith was actually interested in polyrhythms and loops and fluttering off-key arpeggios, that is, which ‘Miami’ seems to suggest he’s not. Too much money and sex for Smith.
The remixes are perhaps more interesting at this stage: The Field puts his own Velcro-sharp filter on the lead track, charging it on like a faulty bludgeon. Kieran Hebden has a crack too, his more conventionally danceable in that you don’t necessarily have to be in the grip of autism to lock into its rhythm.
Something’s lodged though, and we'll have to return to track one. What's this... smuggery? Acht, but rightly so. I'll grudgingly admit they've earned this lap of honour at the end of a year they’ve stamped all over already. Let’s hope the slurring, sub-aqua dive that the original track takes in its last couple of minutes is a sign that the Brooklyn quartet will ride it out underground for a while, ready to return with their next gigantic steps into future-pop.
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7?
Pffft.
It's no Atlas, but that aside it deserves an 8 at the very least.
Hmm
I prefered it to Atlas to be honest...
^
agreed, I've even got to like the chinesey bit (as some describes it below). The drop just before this is awesome though, just a bit of a long outro though.
Good video
this song is ruined
by the little mock-Chinese melody break halfway through. Jesus, it's so fucking horrible. Loses the song at least 2 points
Not one of their best anyway
Boring.
Widl-idl-adl-nyow
I love this song, stupidlittleorientalbit included
locusts? Will Smith?
jesus, what unpleasant imagery.
Don't diss on Will Smith
He loves his Mastodon.
Tonto is easily 8-9.
You are a complete mongol.
this is a great song
why only a 7? Can't be arsed to read review
this is
the best one of the best tracks on the record. the oriental harmonic bit is awesome!
battles should cover miami after this review
Miami...
the japanese electric violin/sampler duo? I concur, Battles covering them would be mighty fine. Or Will Smith.
One of the better tracks on the album, but in my opinion the singles from the album don't really match up to the previous EPs. The remixes are probably the most interesting things on the disc though.