The electro-pop duo’s third is a playful disco dance pop playing homage to them moving to London – but the final product feels far from home.
The Austrailian party starter dance-pop surge of Confidence Man are arguably one of the hottest acts on the planet right now. Within just three years of their conception, their gloriously idle-crazed fetishes of dance-pop have swung anyone who was in two minds about them.
A custom-designed portable party they have shown the world over their embossed sound of making you feel good. The parade has not stopped so far.
When Confident Music for Confident People dropped in 2018, it set off a catastrophic bomb in the tropes of dance-pop. Heads were turned, eyebrows were raised and standards were set. Standards that often came with a triplet of words. Hot. Sexy. Cool. … Wild. Dirty. Delicious. Whichever you pick, it wouldn’t make a slightest bit of difference. Their funk-decor follow-up of TILT in 2022 took them to even greater heights, really showing that their is no limit to the sparkling ceiling.
Now in celebration of moving to London, the four-piece group reignite the late-morning party with 3AM (LA LA LA), a more straight-forward homage to ’90s hacienda classical in a demure of disco-rising. But something has seemingly got lost in transit here.
While the stand-alone singles of I CAN’T LOSE YOU and SO WHAT hold it aloft with its catchy vocalisations and breakbeat throwbacks. SO TRU is steeped so much in ’90s nostalgia, I feel more inclined to walk around with a cassette fastened to my baggy jeans.
However, the album soon loses its flair when we get the same disco stodginess pilfered through a 12-track. While the diversity of TILT offers makes you want to stay, 3AM‘s lack of change-up makes you want to get off on the nostalgia train’s first stop.
While it cannot be argued that the four of Janet Planet, Sugar Bones, Clarence McGuffie and Reggie Goodchild are still having a party, gleefully knocking up house-garage and disco party rip-roars, you can’t help but feel that the fall-off is real here.
Their brand of dance pop will still be paraded and adored around the world, however, with their gargantuan shows of choreography, class and jazz hands never spluttering out a dull moment.
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