Aug 13 2009 5:54 pm,
Simian Mobile Disco
‘Temporary Pleasure’
(Wichita)
Simian Mobile Disco’s second studio album has moments of the kind of ‘Attack Decay Sustain Release’ brilliance that first thrust Simian’s better offshoot into our consciousness - like the Beta-Band-on-disco-biscuits opener ‘Cream Dream’ and scatty first single ‘Audacity Of Huge’. Dance purists won’t be disappointed either, with minimal techno getting a nod on stomper ‘10000 Horses Can’t Be Wrong’, the bass-driven ‘Synthesise’, and ‘Bad Blood’. But ‘Temporary Pleasure’ feels confused, its gaps hastily plugged with chart-pleasing vocal lines, or, in the tragic case of ‘Turn Up The Dial’, a misfire into the realm of urban (er, guys, leave that shit to N.E.R.D., eh?). ‘Temporary Pleasure’ is worth a listen but inconsistent;marred, perhaps, by veering too close to its title.
Matt Glass
