Les Rythmes Digitales
Darkdancer
Critiques sur l'album
Date de diffusion : 1999
Critiques sur l'album
The band name isn't quite French, and neither is Jacques Lu Cont, the man behind it, despite his fondness for the big cartoony grooves of his ersatz countrymen Daft Punk. A goofy young English track maker, Lu Cont resurrects the bam-bam-boogity bounce of disco-friendly Eighties New Wave. A lot of Darkdancer's grooves wouldn't seem out of place on the Flashdance soundtrack, and in fact Shannon (of "Let the Music Play" fame) and Nik Kershaw each turn up for a song. On the other hand, C-Bank never got to sing, "I've got Lucifer rising in my head," as Thomas Ribeiro does in "Soft Machine," and Lu Cont is happy to scrounge cheese-ball hooks wherever he can: "(Hey You) What's That Sound?" even puts a Buffalo Springfield patch on his baggy pants. The one-idea-per-track rule gets in the way when Lu Cont tries to write actual songs, but his retrofuturist grooves are housecleaning music all night long. (RS 827)
DOUGLAS WOLK