Chromeo cd review

Business Casual
4/5
At London dance festival Lovebox this year, Chromeo, aka P-Thugg (short, talk box, synth operator) and Dave 1 (physique like a pencil, guitar), were the consummate hosts. They moved the crowd into a frisky frisson with their slick and schmoove grooves, and, six years on from the release of the Montreal duo’s ’80s funk ’n’ pop smash ‘Needy Girl’, it still sounded as fresh and infinitely more fly than a new pair of Fruit of the Loom Y-fronts. But how far have they moved on with this, their third album? Just a nudge. Business Casual oozes all of their trademark playful retro-isms, from the tone of Dave 1’s guitar licks on ‘Night by Night’, to the synth schwings on ‘I’m Not Contagious’. Elsewhere, ‘The Right Type’ sounds like it has been lifted from the latest Guilty Pleasures compilation, while bonus track ‘I Could Be Wrong’ features Vampire Weekend’s Ezra, a spoken-word breakdown and a saxaphone solo. There’s no new territory conquered here, but Chromeo will make you want to get up in the morning and get down at night, and this record is just too fun not to go nuts to.