{"id":41524,"date":"2009-05-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/dark-sneak-love-action\/"},"modified":"2009-05-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T00:00:00","slug":"dark-sneak-love-action","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/dark-sneak-love-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Sneak Love Action"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Tom Tom Club\u2019s sole release from the \u201890s, Dark Sneak Love Action<\/i> is a definite improvement over Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom, <\/i>but that\u2019s not saying much. The material is as lightweight as ever, the music is still repetitive and the lyrics are on the thin side yet again. It\u2019s adorable stuff for sure, though nothing here lends itself to a long shelf life. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Having said that, there are some new twists with accordions (\u201cIrresistible Party Dip\u201d) and bagpipes (\u201cDaddy Come Home\u201d), as well as some cartoon-quality turns (\u201cInnocent Sex Kiss\u201d) that bring back the fun that Tom Tom Club has become known for. For her part, Tina Weymouth handles the vocal duties well, going from twisted on the hypnotic opener \u201cLove Wave\u201d to singing several verses in French on \u201cSay I Am.\u201d She still slips into familiar staccato territory on many tracks (especially \u201cWho Wants To Be An Ugly Girl\u201d), though for the most part her performance is toned down throughout the bulk of the album.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

You can pretty much divide the album equally between the good cuts and the so-so ones. While there aren\u2019t any truly embarrassing moments to be found on DSLA, <\/i>there really aren\u2019t any truly memorable ones either. They seem to be playing it safe on this release, with a few all-too-brief surprises thrown in here and there. This is one of those records that take some patience for the rewards to become evident. There\u2019s an unexpected tempo change brought about by a cool instrumental break in \u201cInnocent Sex Kiss\u201d and the sound of a soda bottle being opened and poured into a glass on \u201cIrresistible Party Dip,\u201d not to mention a terrific updating of the Hot Chocolate hit \u201cYou Sexy Thing.\u201d<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Film composer Danny Elfman would undoubtedly be proud of the job Tom Tom Club has done with \u201cDogs In The Trash,\u201d mainly because it sounds exactly like something from the score he created for Ed Wood<\/i>. With its spooky effects, it would be a great song to play on Halloween. And part of the charm of a song like \u201cSunshine And Ecstasy\u201d is hearing the spoken bits that have been thrown into this instrumental piece for good measure.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

For every inconsequential filler number like \u201cMy Mama Told Me,\u201d there is a treasure to be found like the title track, which has a great sound and some solid production. Clearly, the band didn\u2019t yet have their sea legs under them from a production standpoint, or else every song on this album would have been equally as strong. Since they chose some tracks over others to put more work and effort into, there\u2019s no real connecting thread that holds the listener\u2019s attention throughout the album\u2019s duration. This uneven and unfinished quality is what keeps records of this ilk from garnering more critical support. It certainly keeps fans from wanting to hear more, which explains why Tom Tom Club\u2019s days were so numbered in 1992.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":29902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8350],"rating":[5614],"class_list":["post-41524","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-tom-tom-club","rating-rating-c-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41524"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}