With echoes of classic sounds from The Human League to Air and even a dash of Wham!, the Finnish electro-pop artist’s cleverly textured, stylish double album also contains cosmic jazz, dub reggae, neon synth-pop, tender ballads and psych-rock. Guest collaborators include the French model and singer Alma Jodorowsky (and grand-daughter of director Alejandro Jodorowsky), fellow Finn and saxophonist Jimi Tenor, Faux Real, Yu-Ching Huang and John Moods. The opener and title track is lush, laidback jazz-funk instrumental, moving into the chilled electro-pop of Drifting Away. Other highlights include the Kraftwerk-ish Night Walk, the catchy wooshes, beats and ghostly and wistful vocals of Palace In My Head (with Jodorowsky), Hell & Heaven with the Los Angeles brothers Elliott and Virgile Arndt of Faux Real, and the Human League-style noir-pop of another former Song of the Day, I Forget. There’s also lots of mischievous experimentation on this album, with a skippy Wham!-style beat on The Chamber of Love, oodles of bleeps on Cyborg, disco funk on L’Horizon, classic French 70s disco on Galactic Romance (also with Jodorowsky), and the epic, fun, synthy and jazz sax-flecked indulgence with the closing 13-minute track Let’s See How Things Go. Smoothly, dipping and bathing in the past, but with inventive, entertaining, enjoyable, experimental affection. Out on Domino.
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