I Created Disco
| Calvin Harris
I Created Disco
I Created Disco is the debut studio album by Scottish musician Calvin Harris. It was released on 15 June 2007 by Columbia Records. It was preceded by the singles "Acceptable in the 80s" and "The Girls", which reached numbers 10 and three on the UK Singles Chart, respectively. The album debuted at number eight on the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 16,121 copies. On 23 May 2008, it was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). I Created Disco had sold 223,845 copies in the United Kingdom by November 2014. --Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Harris reduces pop's limitless possibilities to one-joke self-parody, his youth his most distinguishing characteristic, an unremembered yesterday always more vibrant than today.
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BBC
This LP really only has one glitterball of an idea, but it’s an idea put to great use. If you’re getting ready for a big night out or just on one (if you see what I mean), you’ll whoop with joy when the Scot comes through the speakers.
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Drowned In Sound
Leave this to collect dust in the bargain bin. Or, better still, the bins out the back of HMV.
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The Guardian
It is witless and forever tripping over its own feet. Harris's two plodding instrumentals are bad enough, but on most tracks he chants repetitive lyrics so stupid they feel like an insult to the listener.
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Pop Matters
It is just a pretty confection, good for transient enjoyment at best.
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Sputnik
It’s a lonely Friday night. At least I have the funky Scottish beats of a Mr. Calvin Harris to create my own private party.
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Variety
Recorded on the cheap at the Harris home, “I Created Disco” boasts a handful of truly toe-tapping bass lines and a bevy of different instrumental approaches.
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All Music
Harris doesn't need to sing -- his electronic noises from the keyboard are quite sufficient .
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Random J Pop
I created Disco is a hot album. Sure, some songs are a bit juvenile and stupid - but this is part of the album's charm. It's fun.
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Ryan's Smashing Life
The man is out of control, in a most unsuspecting way and refreshing way. Hit play and get ready for the latest and greatest club sound.
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NME
Harris has distilled all of the synth-popping, amp-busting sounds of electroclash and disco-punk into a complete set of proper pop uppers.
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The Skinny
The album is a reworked revival and regeneration of a fading scene, and helpfully proves that you don't need the flashiest equipment to make the best tunes.
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Bullz-Eye
It’s the kind of record one can listen to a hundred times, put it aside to never hear again, and feel no guilt at having listened to it so many times.
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Dorks and Losers
Calvin has managed to compose a well-made, yet still very raw, collection of catchy and danceable tunes related to a genre that I have never heard of till Calvin — electroclash.
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My News Desk
This is music that wants to get people dancing again. And I Created Disco really succeeds in the purpose.
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LAS Magazine
I Created Disco will no doubt shoot Calvin Harris straight to super-stardom; and from what I can predict, he will nurture his career well.
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BC Blogcritics
There’s an odd simplicity to Calvin’s music, despite the obvious complexity to his mixing of the many vocal and sound tracks.
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QRO Magazine
With his debut, Calvin Harris has made a digital club sound borne from the early digital revolution. Sci-fi effects drive a sly, care-free dance album that’s in both reverence and light of the early 80’s.
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Express
Danceable, listenable and great fun, this album doesn't have a dud track.
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Manchester Evening News
The album of full of big, gauche, stupid statements, repeated with dopy insistence over naïve electropop.
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