Ocelot
‘No Requests’
(Wall Of Sound)

As James Welsh and Cory Kilduff, the transatlantic twiddlers trading as Ocelot, can testify, bootlegs’ n’ bacchanalia’ll go a long way on the blogosphere, since it was their mixy mischief and ‘Our Time’’s heroic house hedonism that got the web sufficiently lathered to lead to a bona fide deal. Brilliantly, though, there’s far more to their debut even than that; recent single ‘Beating Hearts’ is a rollerskating, Junior Boys-like flickerer that tumbles irresistibly into bouncy brutality, ‘Forbidden Touch’ marries the ecstatic to the earthy in a manner scarcely seen since Dubstar, ‘All Around Us’ imagines Daft Punk’s ‘Aerodynamic’ set adrift in orbit and ‘The Medicine’ is a titanically cleansing and sizably seductive acid cascade. Real world hugeness should be theirs for the asking.

Iain Moffat