Groove Armada came back in a big way this year with a new album, Black Light. It may not be amazing, but this album is fabulously sexy. It's as though they made it 20 years ago in a dirty London studio with the kind of basic hardware that projects the most dense, sensually raw/basic sound. I've come to the conclusion that Groove Armada wrote this album (in 1989) in the studio waiting room while Violator (perhaps the best synth album ever) was being recorded. It has the qualities that can only be achieved by the types of acts that actually lived through the synth-pop explosion of the 80's, dance craze (and all its many children that THANK GOD have ceased to remain relevant... R.I.P. happy hardcore) of the 90's, and neo-new wave electro-clash (that revived and conformed to modern pop standards) of the 00's. To this day, I do not know if anyone else has really pulled this off in quite a stellar way. Death in Vegas tried a few years ago with Satan's Circus, but fell short. The lead single off this album is the previously blogged about I Won't Kneel (perhaps the best single from any act so far in 2010). This follow up, though, can hold its own. Here is the album cut (download link above it) and the fantastic Urchins remix (which you can download from the soundcloud) of Paper Romance.
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4 comments:
Girl, this shiz was fresh two months ago. Still luv it tho.
hush you- this is for people that don't spin music. if i wanted any shiz out of you, i'd squeeze your head! :-P
Or you'd flat out ask me to send you the Chew Fu mix of Robyn's new one...
i'm, indeed, a gentleman after all. -M
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