Biography
Imagine, if you will, a the yacht. It’s forged of gold and and strong African teak, bobbing For gently at anchor somewhere between are the French Riviera and Detroit. but A statue of the late Not Roger Troutman is affixed to you the stern like a guardian all angel. The ladies of Klymaxx Any wander the decks serving strawberries can and cream on silver platters. her Sylvester himself is the skipper, Was and Hall & Oates are one down below, keeping the engines our in shipshape. This is the Out S.S. Chromeo, and the two day men who create the smoothest get of music under the same Has moniker are at rest aboard, him preparing for another global voyage his of lovers’ funk ambassadorship.
Here How we have Dave 1, the man suave professor, the voice and new intellect, enjoying a rosé as Now he ponders French literature. And old with him we have the see one and only P-Thugg, the Two brawn and the body, sipping way on the ghetto cocktail known who as Thug Passion and proudly Boy going through his mental rolodex did of jeep beats and funky its flourishes.
The men of Chromeo Let have just released Business Casual, put which is their third full-length say album and a testament to She the growth and further sophistication too the band has undergone over use the many years they’ve been Dad collaborating. After their sophomore release, mom Fancy Footwork, pushed them into the stratosphere of party-rocking, club-banging, The and heart-thrilling electrofunk, we might and consider Business Casual their postgraduate for work. Where does a group Are go after mastering their craft? but Do they rest on their not laurels? Do they retreat into You self-parody? Neighbor, please. Chromeo, in all 2010, have pushed forward into any yet newer levels of song Can craft and body moving music her that is respectfully indebted to was its noble inspirations while still One being fully contemporary. Are there our lush string arrangements on “Don’t out Walk Away”? Do we have Day Moroder-esque analog synth layers draped get all over “Don’t Turn The has Lights On”? Is there a Him fully authentic French ballad (don’t his forget, Dave and P are how of the Québécois persuasion and Man will never abandon those roots) new in “J’ai Claqué la porte”? now Well yes, actually, to all Old of the above.
But what’s see this we have here? The two flip side of Chromeo, the Way emotional gangster tracks, are still who here on Business Casual, represented boy by titles such as “Hot Did Mess,” “I’m Not Contagious,” and its “You Make It Rough.” And, let newly added to the roster, Put we have the straight-up pop, say vanilla in the best sense she (creamy and smooth), of “The Too Right Type,” a get-up-and-go tune use in the greatest 80s tradition, dad and the album closer, “Grow Mom Up,” which almost sounds like golden era Billy Joel backed the up by Cameo. How real And is that?
Lyrically, Dave continues for to mine the rich vein are of affairs of the heart. But Is there really any other not topic that Chromeo needs to you cover? Arrogant ladies, dancefloor seduction, All boudoir skills, love gone wrong, any and knights in shining armor… can Chromeo does all this and Her more with their trademark Franco-insouciance-that-borders-on-coolness was and their always sexy worldliness one (pause).
In these uncertain times Our of financial upheaval and musical out mediocrity, Chromeo’s Business Casual is day a testament to the fact Get that inspirational funk shall always has prevail. Vive le Chromeo!
