Montreal’s acclaimed electronica/techno/dance artist Tiga Sontag returns with his fourth album - inventively packed with head-nodding, toe-tapping, oddly itchy, infectious grooves, cleverly crafted retro sounds recalling Kraftwerk to acid house and electroclash, insistent bold beats and synth riffs, with lyrics of the existential, droll and surreal. Guests include Fcukers, and Maara and Boys Noize, the latter on the thumping, bassy repetitious, ironic mantra opener Hot Wife. The booming High Rollers combines acid house with a vocal reminiscent of an 80s South Bronx rapper with detailed descriptions of crime, style and excess: “Cash flow extreme / Dress code supreme / Vocabulary obscene / Definition street player, you know who I mean, the high rollers.” Some tracks are lyrically far simpler work merely by repetition, such as IAMWHATIAM with MRD, Lollipop (“Butterfly Lollipop Cherry …” Sexless Pornographic Losers with Maara, or the showy, flamboyant wobbly beats of the fun single Silk Scarf featuring Fcukers. There is a broader schope ofn infectious beats and squeaky riffs of Friction, and Need You Tonight: “All we’ve got is this moment / Twenty first century is yesterday / You can care all you want / Everybody does baby, thats okay.” These three tracks particular bring a mesmeric momentum at the heart of the album. I Am Your Detroit Sunrise goes full in on that cited city’s house scene, gradually building with further tracks to the finale of synth pop retro sounds Ecstasy Surrounds Me, harking back to an era closer to Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark. Infectious, pleasing, clever crafted fun. Out on Secret City Records.
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