You listen, no, rather experience, the first single of the new album ‘Temporary Pleasure’ from Simian Mobile Disco and 'Audacity of huge' instantly becomes an addiction because it’s so mind-boggling in too many ways. It is catchy, rhythmic, witty and totally bloody stylish. The fact that is also an amazing high class vocabulary display supporting a theme of love puppy depression, that’s a whole separate dwelling. So naturally you want more, you yearn for the album, of what is behind or together with that song and what you get is: a good album! A nice blending of melodies with an incredible variation of beats, blended smoothly with different voices, most notably Chris Keating ( from Yeasayer), Alexis Taylor ( from Hot Chip) and the girls from Telepathe. Great choices for the rest of featurings, but no strong impression. And no not even the one with Beth Ditto - I love that woman but kind of same soufflé different day.
‘Temporary pleasure’ is supposed to be a journey like all albums of such instrumentation and on basic level it clearly succeeds. The first track ‘Cream Dream’ is a rather good product but, yes there is a ‘but’: it reminds me of something ‘The Breakfast Club’ soundtrack like, and not in a good way because of that awful vocal timbre – ih! I don’t like it and it’s annoying!
Further drawn into ‘Audacity of huge’ where you thank your daddy for purchasing a sound system and a subwoofer along with it (like it was made for that song alone) and you turn to high volume and abuse the song! And yet they made the terrible mistake of letting some idiot make a video for the song with the catastrophic mistake where lyrics are explained. Yes, they are a witty and elevated combination but you do not explain to the monkey that the new bananas are artificially grown when she will notice the different taste, but you rather let her enjoy the new change of flavor.
Pulled rapidly in ‘10000 horses can’t be wrong’, you thank your daddy again! A self supported melody with perfect professional coordination of instruments, so club worthy – and one where I would actually go!
‘Cruel intentions’ is suppose to be the next best hype of the album (indeed, love can be a meaningless emotion); it barely is one because the negative does blend with Beth quite nicely but the outcome somehow doesn’t pull it off. Still after it does convince you that ‘Cruel Intentions’ is a decent track, it turns you rather 180 degrees and introduces you into the high speed frenzy of ‘Off the map’. Off the map into the hole of being just another track with all too familiar formula of mediocre sound sprinkled with an additional edgy beat – sorry, it just doesn’t cut it for me. How could it?!
The level continues with ‘Synthesize’. Still, a slightly change and a new prophetic like voice sample. It then retraces the path (that forceless you follow, and good for you) to the club worthy atmosphere, this time of ‘Bad Blood’ – a state of mind masterpiece of surreal mystic lift up. But next it pulls the rug out from under feet and introduces you to the ‘Turn Up Dial’. Cute, but it reminds me of LL Cool J featuring for some lady with big ass not worth mentioning – so no, no thank you!
Redirects once more to a whole new path of ‘Ambulance’, a song with a cryptic sound, feels exactly what probably is: an experiment that was considered to be a song. Well, no! Pointless little thing is the step to the last track ‘Pinball’. This track features the vocal cords – a musical thrill of the beautiful duo from Telepathe. What comes out is an incredibly well sound survey of sexual teasing, a reverberation wrapped in the duo’s voices that do deliver in sense and feeling. Together with ‘Bad Blood’ , ‘Pinball’ stands as part of that group of songs that represent pure musical masturbation, soundtrack for of course social masturbation, hallelujah!
After all these being written and leaving aside the little slips regarding some tracks, these 2 boys from Simian Mobile Disco ( the boys know their tools, no doubt there), they do deserve the warmest round of applause for the construction of this musical journey.
Bravo!
*photo courtesy of Simian Mobile Disco's official site
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