Die Antwoord: $O$

Drawing on Licensed To Ill, Giorgio Moroder, Gilbert and Sullivan, The Lonely Island, and Donkey Kong, as well as many other far less reputable sources, $O$ is ephemeral, artless, spiritually vacant, and frequently difficult to decipher if you don’t happen to speak Die Antwoord’s native Afrikaans. It’s also loaded with irresistible earworms that grow more coherent and less irritating the more you hear them. Cartoonish sidekick Yo-Landi Vi$$er takes command of the bouncy “Wat Pomp” with the sex appeal of Lil’ Kim with an anime makeover, but MC Ninja (a.k.a. rapper-comedian Watkin Tudor Jones) never leaves the spotlight for long, lazily releasing lines about “droppin’ paper” over the rudimentary 808-driven funk of “I Don’t Need You.” Then there’s the thoroughly fucked “pah-ty, pah-ty, pah-ty” ode “Doos Drunk,” where a lusty heavy-metal stomp booty-calls the world’s soppiest pint-hoisting drinking ballad and proceeds to make a sweaty racket for four violently chaotic minutes. $O$ probably won’t be around tomorrow, but for now, it’s a riot.

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