The stylish Canadian from Montreal returns with a sixth LP of clever, catchy, droll-delivery dance music and electro-synth-pop, joined by Belgian electronic legends Soulwax aka David and Stephen Dewaele, and Pierre Guerineau. There’s oodles of this sort of genre out there, but Davidson just has a perfect ear, never overblown, never too minimal – her tracks are perfectly produced with tight, reverberant brightness and delivered with super-dry humour. The album title muses on what’s it’s like being an outsider, and standout track Sexy Clowns, grabs your instant attention with that opening line: “Am I full of shit, or maybe halfway full?/ I started a bit rough, oops, did I turn you off?”) and a brilliant burbling beat and distorted whistle. There’s a fabulous distinctive spatiality to her sound, and while there are some echoes of classics of the genre, such as a dash of early Human League on Fun Times, and certainly a feel of Kraftwerk on Statistical Modelling, but if you’re going to be influenced in electro-pop that’s pretty much mandatory. Other standouts include the staccato-laughing, slow, sexy-voiced Demolition, Push Me Fuckhead, the fuck-you, spell-out song Y.A.A.M. (also with a Soulwax remix), and Contrarian, but the entire album has fabulous momentum and fizzing, dark. shadowy, clubbing energy. Out on Soulwax’s label DEEWEE & Because Music.
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