Last time we heard from Canadian electro duo MSTRKRFT was with the 2009 album Fist Of God, which featured guest spots from rappers Ghostface Killah and N.O.R.E, and R&B crooner John Legend.
Since then, Jesse F Keeler has reanimated his noise-punk band Death From Above 1979, and it’s in that headspace that he’s returned to his other project. This time the guest vocalists include punk deities Ian Svenonius (Nation Of Ulysses, The Make-Up) and Jacob Bannon (Converge), and the tracks they’re employed to holler over are appropriately feral, overloaded with squealing synths and clattering drum machines.
For all the noise and fury, however, there's precious little of the fun and funk that set MSTRKRFT apart on their 2006 debut The Looks. Ultimately, Operator is an angry, obnoxious – and dated – endurance test.
