Following 2000's 'Funkulo', the Italian nu-disco duo return with an album that should be devastatingly passed it sell-by-date. Instead this is one of the freshest albums of the year.
A fantastic piece of no-frills disco-funk production, Tutto Matto, aka Jurij Prette and Paolo Guijlielmino (try saying that at 3am), pick-up tried and tested arrangements, classic bass lines, standard drum patterns and oft repeated shimmering guitar licks and breath a joyful vivacity into them all.
Opening with the glorious, locked down disco of 'Stay Forever', Jurij and Paolo pin the track on a three beat, one note bass line, producing a classic mid-Seventies funk wig out. It's hard to hear it without seeing a row of white suited men spinning in unison on an under-lit dancefloor.
Unbelievably, from here things get better. 'My Mum Would Tell Me' picks the tempo-up for a choral Salsoul work out, 'Changes In Piano' takes its guitar inferences from Nile Rogers, 'Peace' centres around an upbeat Sixties gospel piano riff, the deeply infectious 'I Love You More' drops the funk down to new level and so it goes on, each track digging a little further into the groove.
Reminiscent of peak period Faze Action, Ray Mang or Street Corner Symphony, Tutto Matto have kicked trends into touch. If you own one nu-disco album, make it this one.
