Yahoo! Music Review

Released on 05/05/08
Label: Backyard

Pop music doesn't always have to inspire or dazzle, let alone change lives, to serve its purpose. Sometimes it's just a lubricant for living, a sweet sound to fill the day or a buoyant beat to fill the dancefloor, easily enjoyed and easily forgotten. So it is with Chromeo, the Montreal/NYC electro duo who rather brilliantly describe themselves as the only successful Arab/Jew collaboration in history.

The re-released "Fancy Footwork" opens with doomy synths that wink knowingly in the direction of Michael Jackson's "Beat It", before resolving itself into a sleek, pacy piece of future-disco complete with buzzing keyboards and a stuttering, sampled female vocal. The lyrics are a stubbornly trivial tribute to the joys of dancing and it's all enjoyable enough that you don't dwell on the fact that Tiga pulled off almost exactly the same trick much better with "Far From Home".

    by Jaime Gill