Shout at the Döner

Considering he\'s been the crown prince of PDM (prankster dance music) for more than a decade, it\'s no surprise that Kid606\'s latest full-length is a *little* more sinister than his last (2005\'s ambient-leaning *Resilience*). Serrated synths and top-heavy basslines face off in the foreground of Miguel Depedro\'s pressure-cooked mix, and beyond all that bedlam lie lots of liquified loops, from the diva-driven house nods of \"You All Break My Heart\" to the Nick Cave chorus that cuts across \"Dancehall of the Dead\" — a delirious 4 a.m. anthem that also includes a swift sample of the Breeders\' \"Last Splash.\" And then there\'s the single that\'ll make you *really* worry about Depedro\'s sanity, \"Mr. Wobble\'s Nightmare.\" A brilliant piece of black humor, it twists a morality tale about a  drug overdose (4hero\'s dancefloor-detonating classic \"Mr. Kirk\'s Nightmare\") into a B-movie about an underground club kid being eaten alive. Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu guests, making a melodramatic bid for future voiceover work. As Depedro says in *Döner*\'s liner notes: \"If you listen to this album in its entirety it will make you cooler than those who don\'t.\"

Latest from Kid606 is a hell of a lot of fun-- a rough, dirty party album, a trawl through two decades of abusive bass and dancefloor bad taste.

Kid606's Shout at the Döner would appear to preach on a theme as revolutionary as the odd late Green Day album; it features four separate movements, each with a preface (example: Dear homeland: we should square up now, otherwise it just gets nasty) and potentially leading song titles ("Malcontinental").

Aging though he is, Miguel De Pedro is trapped in the perpetual adolescence of his puerile namesake.