Steve Aoki is no stranger to negative feedback or reviews on anything he does. But his recent show at the O2 Brixton Academy in London on the 7th February, probably got him the worst review of his life, as Ian Gittins of The Guardian tore into the American producer and DJ’s show with quite a selection of words.
With a headline that read “Steve Aoki review – DJ in a dinghy bludgeons the audience into submission” and with just a measly one star out of five, it wasn’t very hard for a reader to imagine what all lay ahead for Aoki in the review.
Gittins compared Aoki’s set to “brittle, cartoon trance is the club-music equivalent of a Michael Bay Hollywood blockbuster, all lowest-common-denominator action sequences and controlled explosions.” and finished his review with the following conclusion:
“Like any irredeemably superficial artist, Aoki craves gravitas and credibility, and has earnestly vowed that his next studio album will be a more profound, deep-house affair. At 2am, watching him crowd-surf topless across a cake-bespattered moshpit, it is somehow difficult to believe.”
Check out the complete review here.
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