Album Review: Major Lazer - Be Together Australazer

It's easy to think about what it gained with a remix: tempo, volume, fan service to zeitgeist riding genre-hoppers.

What is lost is often forgotten. With a 'bigger sound', a remix can lose its sense of scale and proportion. Be Together is a really neat bit of pop music. It's sweet but not overly so. There's balance. Sadly, the same cannot be said for the accompanying remixes on this EP. Only the Carmada mix — with a chorus beefed up just enough — escapes this criticism. On the whole, these remixes are echoes, lesser versions of the exciting original, with the Nicky Night Time version particularly dreary and overly long. Going big is fine. Maintaining balance is better.