This is the second album by Canadian German smart sophisticated dance pop duo Lola Dutronic it is dedicated to the bands Mentor and Label boss the late great Mighty Marty Thau whose advice and help along with Craig Leon helped kick off the writing process for I Believe but we're getting ahead of ourselves as that's not till track 7.
The Album opens with Bulletproof Celebrity a very glacial detached slightly autotuned song about that need to be a celebrity all the time and the vapidity of the world it creates.
Wrapped in some cool minimal dance beats and handclaps and some gentle keyboards it's Ironic enough for the very targets of its disgust to want to have it playing behind them on a reality show.
The dancefloor starts pumping for the first Christmas Tune review of 2015 for me and like last year it comes in September although I first heard this a while ago. Yes The Christmas Disco will sound fine at any number of Christmas parties with nicely ironic lyrics so the Christmas Curmudgeons like myself can dance to it without cringing like many Christmas classics do.
The End Of The World is as lush and comforting version of this song as you could wish for super laid back and beautiful as can be sung in French and English full of longing and regret until the end of the world arrives in a slightly dystopian ending still beautiful mind.
We then get the lush and metronomic laid back kiss off classic in the making Go Fuck Yourself perfect for some dancefloor fun and games as Stephanie lays down just what an asshole her boyfriend has been until the only thing she wants to say to him is Go Fuck Yourself!! It has a real Pet Shop Boys feel to it too.
Happy Endings well not quite that kind of Happy ending but a nice slice of summery shimmery dance pop with a kiss off for the guy who doesn't believe in Happy Endings the fool they are so much fun!! This is Gauzy pop with a dance edge.
There take on the Serge Gainsbourg classic Harley Davidson is in French and has a wonderfully slow languorous feel to it Like Francois Hardy on Valium it's quite gorgeous and unlike most of the versions I really like that are much dirtier and grittier than this and yet this really works a great new spin on a very cool song.
I Believe the aforementioned song inspired by Messrs Thau and Leon is like Sarah Cracknell fronting the Pet Shop Boys at their misanthropic peak I believe this song more than I ever Believed Cher. As at least she admits to the ephemeral qualities of love in a fine dance pop song with an insidiously catchy chorus.
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I Wanna MMM You is as cool and sexy a plea for some all night long loving as could be wished of in a gauzy light fluffy barely there dance song with a sort of Jane Birkin approach to the J'Taime's that punctuate the song like whispered nothings in your ear.
Keep On Dancing is great modern pop about older people who are still out and about having it large and enjoying themselves there is need to stop and although they have a line about partying with Jimmy Page being in the past I last saw him out and about earlier this year as he is still out dancing.. All over a song that reminds me of early 80's Trevor Horn style productions.
Modern Suicide is a wonderfully ironic phrase for turning your mobile phone off for the day not touching the social media and somehow surviving without it all without getting withdrawal symptoms with a good electro dance slightly Kraftwerk track behind it. It has a good goodbye reprise of it that you'd expect to close the album but doesn't!
As we head straight to the dance floor for Reality TV a good floor filler for the folks that just wanna be on Reality TV most of them will just think it's about them and not mocking them lift up your bacardi breezers and dance like you just have to get on Big Brother.
There Goes My Heart Again is just cool poppy electro dance pop. On the album closer I'm Trying To Think About you is a rueful song about going all over the world trying to forget the love she has lost, it even mentions the Bucharest show that I saw a couple of years ago. This is a nice plea for a reunion of sorts with a friend and lover maybe as a collaborator and friend and again it reminds me of The Pet Shop Boys.
This is a great and sophisticated album that you can get from : https://loladutronic.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-translation https://www.facebook.com/lola.dutronic
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