Given that The Rapture’s already turned crap, DFA’s turned backwards through Bowie (via LCD Soundsystem) and the best disco had to offer (the brilliant Hercules & Love Affair), Brooklyn’s gone anti-folk and Glass Candy’s got what they do pretty much covered, it’s tempting to dismiss Duchess Says’s dance punk offerings as too little too late.

The pedigree’s pretty impressive — an infamous live show already packaged alongside luminaries Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Depeche Mode and the a-little-too-similar Les Georges Leningrad — but the recorded payoff’s a little underwhelming. When the pieces come together (the relentless burst of “AEAE,” the synth-driven “Black Flag,” the drum-pad pulse of “I’ve Got the Flu”), Duchess Says makes for perfect mixtape fodder — albeit more on the filler end of the spectrum. Still, the strongest impulse Anthologie inspires is a look through the record collection at those halcyon days of a mere five years ago. Ah, memories!