For this Irish quartet ‘Fade 2 Forever’ bridges a gap between their acclaimed debut long player ‘Laserdisc Nights 2’, with it’s accompanying stream of blistering live shows, and the material this wily 4 piece intend to tease into being over the summer months in between achingly disparate festival dates.
Ostensibly a marriage of climactic synths and techno beats, there’s something glistening and cinematic about every beat, bar and phrase of this EP and a sense of fun which belies an underlying shrewdity. Le Galaxie may be geographically based in Dublin but they’re steeped in Miami vice. Thus they will transport you beyond the mire and humdrum of your every day.
Opener ‘Love System’ lifts you from that crawling Maestro in Slough and drops you, suitably coiffured in a suit worth more than your kidneys, into a cruising open top sports car, winding ‘neath 80s palms. It sweeps and gleams, all champagne, seduction and sunsets.
‘Heart 2 Heart’ might be said to promise a tad more than it delivers, it might be said to have it’s tongue just a gnat’s further into it’s cheek than truly desired, but it might also be said to be a welcome taste of what the night has to offer. It’s the snappy sober you in the bar before the storm.
Follower, ‘The Nightcaller’, fairly pops and snaps with grubby potential. Taut and direct, it’s an announcement of bonafide dancefloor credentials. Picture the scene if you will. Picture a Skins cast member, shot by steadycam, all high fives and hugs, resplendent with indoor raybans, shit eating grin and pupils the size of digestives, stalking the sweating corridors of an undergrounder than thou warehouse rave whilst guffawing hipsters rub shoulders with the twitching club vets. They reach the floor and pile in, ecstatically dancing as follower ‘Heat City’ possesses them, hands in the air and eyes imploringly upward, blissed out on Bladerunner soundscapes and throbbing bass.
This EP.
This EP is a 23 minute and 43 second night out.
Joyous, vibrant and varied. Intelligent and naively enthusiastic in equal measure.
This EP made me want to lose 2 stone, put down the real ale and get back on the party smarties.
The ending credits rise as ‘Gotta Go’ ebbs and swells. Reflecting on the melee gone before, you awaken in a 5 star hotel with a beautiful person you’ve never met before.
Out now on The Delphi Label.
Posted by Will Roberts.
