The Argyle Album plays more like a music-lover’s dream mix and the samples are more attentively deliberated over. “Allure,” which sheds Radiohead’s Kid A in a playful light, represents the utility in music today—-really, Thom Yorke and Shawn Carter aren’t as far apart as they seem. The album’s closer, “My First Song,” is an inspired piece of bubbling blues energy with a whiplash rhythm section, steeping Jay-Z in Delta watering-hole flavor which is oddly provided by The Zombies’ “I Want You Back Again.”
-Tom Mantzouranis, Glorious Noise