_____James Ford is a musical genius. He was the mastermind behind Arctics’ second and third albums, Klaxon’s Mercury winning Myths of the Near Future, Mystery Jets’ Making Dens, and most recently the beautiful Florence & The Machine’s Lungs to name but a few. And when he’s not producing platinum selling records, he’s also one half of Simian Mobile Disco, a DJ’ing duo who also release the occasional jaw-dropping record, such as Attack Decay Sustain Release in 2007, which contained proper fit hits such as I Got This Down, Tits & Acid, and the magnificent Hustler, which just so happens to also be possibly the best music video ever made.
_____So two years went by with not much from the Simian machine, with it only sputtering out the odd remix or single, including the god-awful Run for Nike. Then in 2009, in jumped back into life, churning out Temporary Pleasure, a record full to the brim with impressive guest vocalists including Beth Ditto, Chris Keating, and Alexis Taylor, and overflowing with electrifying tracks such as Off The Map and Synthesise. The really cool thing about this album is that on each guest vocalists’ track, you can actually hear their influence. Bad Blood could not be more Hot Chip. But the overall feel of the album isn’t diluted despite the small crowd’s worth of people that contributed to it, meaning this could be nothing but the fantastic return to form for Simian Mobile Disco. Oh yeah, and there’s that song of the year on there too.
_____“I got that grape kool-aid filled swimming pool…” Even the ignorant among you who don’t like SMD couldn’t not love that song. And for the educated people who liked ADST, you’re going to love Temporary Pleasure. It’s a more fun, more hip SMD than what we’ve heard before, and they were pretty goddamn hip before. And don’t worry, the tracks on there that are 100% Simian are a fabulous flashback to the Sleep Deprivation days. Who knows what James will do next. He could produce another chart-topping album, or decide to grace us with another SMD release. Either way, you know anything this guy touches will be gold.
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