Money Sucks, Friends Rule

Following in the footsteps of David Guetta and Calvin Harris, EDM\'s new sensation, Dillon Francis, is as much populist as hedonist. On his debut full-length, he mixes neon pop anthems with surging EDM bangers. His collaboration with Martin Garrix, \"Set Me Free,\" features the kind of drop that sends dancefloors into conniptions, while \"When We Were Young\" and \"Love in the Middle of a Firefight\" are crossover tracks aimed squarely at pop radio. Those looking for the moombathon sound Francis made his name with will find it on \"I Can\'t Take It\" and the raucous DJ Snake team-up \"Get Low.\"

Money Sucks, Friends Rule is Dillon Francis' first full-length after a string of EPs and singles that broke moombahton big in the States. And while there've been glimpses of what he can pull off, his intended breakout suffers from a lack of nuance.

A social media prankster who also offers speaker-ripping floor-fillers, DJ and producer Dillon Francis seemed genetically engineered for the Mad Decent label, as if Diplo hired scientists who bred the EDM wunderkind in a test tube with a Mishka sticker stuck on the outside.

On his major-label debut, Money Sucks, Friends Rule, Francis attempts to make the Swiss Army knife of party albums.