Major Lazer, Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do

What do you get when you pair a Philly-based DJ with a penchant for dinosaurs and a British producer whose pseudonym was once changed from Solid Groove to Switch?

Why, a zombie-fighting Jamaican cartoon commando with lasers for limbs and an uncanny way with futuristic-dancehall blazers, of course. As their breathtakingly kinetic alter-persona, Major Lazer, master-mixers Diplo (Wesley Pentz) and Switch (Dave Taylor)—with backing from the louche larynxes of Santigold and Amanda Blank—lay down a Jimmy Spliff, er, Cliff-indebted aural bacchanal. “Mary Jane,” “Pon De Floor” and “I’ll Make Ya” are raucous patois party-starters guaranteed to get all of the Jessica Rabbits on the floor hopping.