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Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs

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While TEED may have found commercial success out of the box with the poppy house single “Garden,” the accompanying full-length showed that Orlando Higginbottom was more than a one-trick pony. A cunning blend of pseudo-rave and modern electro-disco, his debut full-length, Trouble, runs over an hour long and is filled with potential hits. The formula is simple and sweet: minimal, hard-hitting retro-fresh beats — with a special attention paid to subtle synth textures — and delicate, breezy vocals that deliver bittersweet but precious melodies. In the same way Postal Service paired glitchy electronica with indie songcraft to make it palatable for contemporary mainstream audiences, a danceable tune like “Tapes & Money,” with its peppy Snap!-style “Feet dont fail me now!” sample lifted from Funkadelics “One Nation Under a Groove,” has mass appeal, and could appeal equally to h