Re-entering the fray with all of three extensive mixes, LUKE SLATER’s "Nothing At All" is stylish and sharp as a tack and the perfect soundtrack to nighttime cruise around the metropolis of your choice. Providing, of course, you undertake the journey in a tank luxuriously appointed with black tinted windows. But that goes without saying, doesn’t it?
Actually, nothing at all pushes all the requisite buttons marked "Surefire", "club" and "hit", but despite its’ dependably pumpin’ machine-tooled precision, it’s really the charismatic presence of guest vocalist Ricky Barrow that ups the panache ante here.
The regular radio edit will do the real business, with Barrow’s throaty Cockney vox thick with betrayal and sarcasm. "I can tolerate you now you’re not around", he sings in this hypercharged anthem to freedom, just crackling with the abandon of Saturday night oblivion.
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Also included are two extended mixes, both pushing the eight-minute mark. The first is preferable, cranking up the ambient quota, while the second tries the patience, straining one Barrow vocal sample to irritation and beyond.
Still, what really matters is "Nothing At All" itself. And that’s certainly sleek, stylish and largely successful.
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