Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do

Major Lazer is a Jamaican commando who lost his arm in the secret Zombie War of 1984. The US military rescued him and re-purposed experimental lasers as prosthetic limbs. Since then Major Lazer has been a hired renegade soldier for a rogue government operating in secrecy underneath the watch of M5 and the CIA. His cover is that of a dance-hall nightclub owner from Trinidad and to further give himself credibility he enlisted the help of long-time allies and uber-producers, Diplo and Switch to produces his first LP. While his true mission is to protect the world from the dark forces of evil that live just under the surface of a civilized society he uses the manipulation of bass waves to create dance floor mayhem at his club.

Lazer's debut, Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do accomplishes his goals of protection through an endless barrage of dance-hall influenced electro bangers. It's almost impossible to imagine the forces of evil being able to survive the incessant bass bin obliteration that Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do unleashes. The songs contained on this album are the sort of songs that leave a path of speaker destruction in their wake. In fact, not only do the forces of evil quiver in fear from Major Lazer, but your speaker set might just unplug itself and run away. Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do is awesome stuff that will ward away evil and push your stereo to its limit.

From the jump up banger, "When You Hear the Bassline," to the reggae influenced, "Can't Stop Now," Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do, is a fantastic record that will appeal to anyone who's ever loved a bass line, being buried in a bass bin or just really good tunes to dance to. Diplo and Switch have pieced this record together with military precision melding tropical music influences with urban ones to make each tune here deadly. By taking classic dance-hall sounds, allowing superstars of the genre to run rampant all over the tracks and then updating it all with a modern dance music polish, Major Lazer and his battalion of bass warriors are all but guaranteed to overpower the forces of evil and keep humanity safe enough to dance at night. If that isn't the definition of what a good album is then I don't know what is.