Their live show has become renowned as one of the most energetic and fun experiences across the Australian music scene. Yacht Club DJs have taken their first step out of the live arena and into the studio to give us their first recorded album. Sadly, it just doesn’t have the same effect.
The album starts off sounding like a Tim Burton influenced remix before breaking out into the ADD friendly mash up Yacht Club are famous for. It lacks consistency, fluctuating between a party album and something you would actually sit and listen to. It is hard to pick how well this album has really been put together but I suppose there in lays the answer. It doesn’t jump out at you as a must have album.
Demons of Gymnastics is missing the same creative mixes or well thought out additions brought to you through the Yacht Club DJs live show. This is just a taste of what Yacht Club has to offer without really reaching their full known potential. It covers the wide range of mixes they are capable of from Florence + the Machine’s “You’ve got the Love” mixed with Mumford and Sons “Little Lion Man” to their more predicted mixes of Daft Punk and Armand Van Helden.
I wouldn’t dismiss this album entirely, but I wouldn’t put it in the highlights of 2010. There are a number of mixes and song choices that bring forth the question of whether or not that really should have made it in. At the same time, there are moments where the whole room would start dancing uncontrollably upon hearing it, even if you were to play it at your older sister’s baby shower.
All in all, the album has something to offer but to anyone that has seen Yacht Club live, it pales in comparison. I am a big fan of these guys but their style, energy and bold song choices have a significantly greater relevance in the live arena, but you can’t help but commend the duo for their efforts. This is by no means a flop but at the same time, there is still some work that needs to be done in the studio.
