ALBUM: Does It Offend You Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You Are Getting Yourself Into

Often sitting uncomfortably between the sound of a post-apocalyptic rave and some kids playing football with a dustbin, DIOYY?'s debut has all the ingredients of a great album, but does the sum live up to its parts?

With the obvious influence of Daft Punk's Discovery and its imitators and followers (both of which DIOYY? can apply themselves to), coupled with the indie-dance sensibility of their contemporaries in the form of Klaxons and Hadouken!, its almost as if the album tries too hard to satisfy every camp at once. Indeed, tracks "Let's Make Out" and "Weird Science" could be Daft Punk singles. Poorly charting, limited release ones, but singles none the less.

Past the superb opening track "Battle Royale" (although the version formerly availiable on their myspace complete with dialogue from the film is better) and the DFA Dance-punk stylings of "With A Heavy Heart (I Regret To Inform You)", as well as the aforementioned "Let's Make Out", the album doesn't have too many high points.

Any pace that the album had built up is quickly lost with "Dawn of The Dead", a misplaced Hot Chip-esque ballad so despairingly dull even Boy Kill Boy fans couldn't sit through it more than once. "Doomed Now" is one of a number botched concoction of poor Daft Punk imitation and shameless laziness. All too often beats and riffs are repeated too within an inch of their lives until it becomes Human After All by numbers, but with the talent replaced with forgettable beeps and guitar noise.

While the interlude that is "Attack of the 60 ft Lesbian Octopus" fits in well enough, and appears, ironically, to be the most thought out track on the album, "Being Bad Feels Pretty Good"'s feeble handclap driven beat coupled with some equally weak-willed lyrics is another poor excuse for sub-par indie-pop.

Overall the album reflects the bands own arrogance in believing that they could do something new and different, whereas in fact it points out actually how good Klaxons were. Any originality is lost in the complacency of drum machines and heavily repeated sampler tracks. What is left is an album, that attempts to reach for the heights of Discovery and Myths Of The Near Future, but instead is even more boring and forgettable than Civilian.

5/10

You Have No Idea What You Are Getting Yourself Into is availiable now via Mute.