This French act’s latest offering in a long line since they convened in 1999, ‘Blitz Gazer’ is a veritable feast of bleepy electro-pop with a strongly Euro disco slant. Large sections take a step away from the bulk of current 80s revivalists, with its low-budget casiotone sounds and robotic processed vocals being more about retro-futurist disco.
Elsewhere, as on the relentlessly bouncy ‘Face in Sustain’, ‘Blitz Gazer’ stands firmly in the territory occupied by dancefloor / chart crossover pop in the 90s and first decade of the new millennium. It’s pretty horrible. It’s hard to be certain if the endlessly repeated refrain in ‘People R Inside’ is ‘do-do-do-do’ or ‘dude dude dude’, but the autotuned to fuck vibe’s the same either way.
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When they do deviate from the standard template, as on the woozy instrumental ‘Sourcloud’, Dat Politics show they can produce genuinely interesting music, other tracks, such as the locked-in cybergoth groove of ‘Hypnotricks’ are quirkily compelling.
Overall, it’s a bit of a mixed electro bag that’s successful in parts but not so much in others, and the duffers counterbalance the quality numbers, which leaves me rather on the fence.
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