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 Dirty VegasElectric Love Release Date 2011 04 26 Label OM Rating:  Grammy Award-winners for their Mitsubishi-advertised chill-out anthem &"Days Gone By," British electronic trio Dirty Vegas looked to have taken their melancholic brand of guitar-charged progressive house as far as they could following their self-imposed hiatus in 2005. But having gotten their various side-projects out of their system, including lead vocalist Steve Smith's solo debut, This Town, and their score to indie film Boys & Girls' Guide to Getting Down, the South London three-piece have belatedly regrouped for their third studio album, Electric Love. Combining the swirling electronica of their 2002 self-titled debut and the melodic indie pop of their 2004 sophomore effort, One, its ten tracks would sound just as at home at a student house party as they would an Ibiza superclub, with songs echoing the angular alt-rock of Bloc Party (&"Never Enough"), the epic tribal trance of Paul Van Dyk (&"Pressure"), and the new wave synth pop of the Killers (&"Little White Doves"). The indie disco vibes continue on the deliciously sleazy title track, which blends twisted electronic bleeps, sinister Gary Numan-style synths, and Gallic disco guitar licks; the punchy &"Changes," which fuses spiky, Clash-influenced punk rock riffs with driving electro beats and some anthemic, diva-esque backing vocals, and the kaleidoscopic ambient soundscape of the Chemical Brothers-esque closing track &"21st Century," which perfectly complements Smith's Bernard Sumner-inspired disengaged and compressed vocals. But for a band who originated in the U.K. house scene, it's surprising that the album falters when they drift into more commercial floor-filler territory, such as on &"Weekend" which is the kind of generic "four-to-the-floor" trance-pop you'd expect from corny Clubland favorites Ultrabeat, and &"Round and Round," which lazily borrows the fuzzy synth-led riff from Tiga's &"You Gonna Want Me." But when Electric Love is firing on all cylinders, it's a solid comeback which fills the Hacienda guitar band-shaped hole left by the continued absence of New Order. Jon O'Brien, Rovi |
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