Doesn’t seem like nine years since Miss Kittin and The Hacker turned everything upside down with their First Album collaboration but they’ve reunited for another sortie and it could’ve been last week such is the chemistry flying around this astounding album. It’s also totally different in musical styles – unsurprisingly considering the transience of the electro-clash which they pioneered then – working in subtle ghosts of minimal, electro and avant electronics to create a new form of future-pop. On ‘Party In My Head’ Miss Kittin unleashes a full-throated blast of vocal heaven recalling no one so much as Debbie Harry. It works a treat. They can cover Elvis’ ‘Suspicious Minds’ but surging tin-tray electro-pulse carnage of ‘Indulgence’ peers into the same black hole Suicide are wont to hang out in. Another noticeable feature is Mr Hacker’s thrusting forth of rude, character-packed analogue synths on tracks like ‘The Womb’ and ‘PPPO’. With all the vapid, characterless dross around right now this album comes like a magnificent bolt of electronic lightning which would set the charts alight if there was any justice, but there isn’t so just know the pair have gone and done it again.
5 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: Kris Needs
