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Teddybears – Devil’s Music

TEDDYBEARS Wrongbar show on Friday (September 9) is cancelled. Rating: N


Glance at the track listing for Swedish dance-rock trio Teddybears’ latest album and three guest-featured songs jump out: Get Momma A House with B.o.B, Crystal Meth Christian with the Flaming Lips, and Cho Cha, a collaboration between Cee-Lo Green and the B-52s. Could it all be as wacky as it sounds? No such luck.

The group’s been making music for two decades, but member Klas Ahlund is probably best known in this part of the world as the co-producer of Robyn’s last two critically acclaimed albums. Despite that pop pedigree, Teddybears’ sixth record is a hulking production of bombastic dance beats mixed with old-timey rock ‘n’ roll riffs. It’s the kind of exhausting, commercially minded party music that overwhelms rather than accentuates its inspired guest features.

You’d figure we’d at least get a one-off novelty track, but the flat, repetitive melodies and gimmicky rhymes even fail to do that.

Top track: Cardiac Arrest

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