MINUIT - Find Me Before I Die A Lonely Death Dot Com
MINUIT - Find Me Before I Die A Lonely Death Dot Com
Written by Luke Oram   
Tuesday, 11 August 2009 11:06
Minuit Don’t even try and figure out the title. It’s just part of the cheeky quirk in MINUIT’s blend of fierce electro-pop, that is one of their biggest draw cards.

Long overdue on the New Zealand dancefloor, 'Find Me Before I Die A Lonely Death Dot Com' is the Nelson trio’s follow-up to 2006’s successful ‘The Guards Themselves’, which gave us the club-ready jam ‘Fuji’ and stuck a flag down-under on behalf of electronic girl power thanks to supercharged frontwoman Ruth Carr.
Compared to their previous bombastic beat-laden efforts, 'Find Me Before I Die A Lonely Death Dot Com' is a more deconstructed and organic dance joint – not in a bad way, mind. The record’s a mischievous jaunt through the toybox of Paul Dodge and Ryan Beehre’s electronica toybox. There’s a lick of something sinister too, judging by the tickling piano and collapsing beats of opener ‘Wayho’. Carr’s vocals are a bit like a sinister grin as she rallies a polluted globe to action. The darkness continues with the electric sway of ‘Run, Run’ where Carr narrates a heroine’s action movie, admitting she’s not brave, “just surrounded by cowards”.

’25 Bucks’ sees mentions of capping knees and breaking legs (which apparently garnered a ban from C4), as Carr vows to “even the score” over the marching beast of giant beats and orchestral synths – dance-floor devotees need not fear Minuit’s experimentation; ’25 Bucks’ shows Dodge and Beehre can still bring anthems to pack the club. ‘Queen of the Flies’ combines muted industrial beats with Carr’s paranoid whispered paranoia – “Who am I, Queen of the Flies?”.

‘Aotearoa’ is a national pride anthem driven along by a thrumming bass line and plodding beats. “He’s my beautiful boy, he’s my Yeah Yeah” Carr coyly sings in ‘Yeah Yeah’, a 21st century pop jaunt complete with skipping breakbeats and trademark sub-bass breakdown. “Find Me...” is full of surprises too though, including gentle guitar ballad ‘Vampires’, which is a hootenanny that sees the lads picking up guitars and tambourines and heading to the back porch and nursery-rhyme ending ‘Everyone From Everywhere'.

Think of “Find Me...” as a different version of Minuit – the usual misfit attitude with a darker edge, the brilliant dance-ready anthems with an organic edge, and the quirk to make it all sound brilliant.
 

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