Pitchfork

Maniac mash-up mobster and Best New Music honoree Girl Talk, whose mother calls him Gregg Gillis, reinvents Writer's Block standout "Let's Call It Off" from fellow Best New Music cats Peter Bjorn and John. And by reinvents, I mean trades the bumbling bass for some synthetic steel drum and cowbell sounds and a little low-end background melody.

It's pleasant enough, but frankly I expected something slightly less rudimentary and slightly more mind-melting from this guy, given his Night Ripper chops.

Then again, it's probably a total banger when cranked to 11 in the club with a half-naked Gillis spazz-dancing and crowd-surfing all over you and your stage-crashing friends, everybody perspiring like it's a rain forest up in there.