Superorganism - Superorganism

Pitchfork 78

The debut from the UK collective is a hugely accomplished reflection of the present, a magpie-friendly collage of pop all glued together by the laconic voice of Orono Noguchi.

The Guardian 60

(Domino)

‘Everybody wants, nobody’s ashamed, everybody wants you to know their name,” sing Superorganism on Everybody Wants to Be Famous, catching the obsession with celebrity culture and the supposedly instant fix of fame that has become so central to our culture. Ironically, the super-catchy song is making them not exactly famous, but certainly virally well-known, after the song’s video racked up 1.5m views online.

Being championed by Frank Ocean and Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig is an unlikely situation for an eight-piece band who live in a shared house, wear charity shop clothes and describe themselves as a “DIY pop production house”. The London-based octet’s airy, disembodied music mashes up white noise, early Human League synthesisers, car horn parps, slamming car doors, radio broadcasts, cartoon characters, fat rubbery basslines and sublime, breezy pop hooks, with a childlike glee. At times, they could be a shaken-and-stirred take on early MGMT.