Body, money, power; that’s how this feisty Brooklyn collective described the band’s upcoming album, ‘Talk About Body’ in a recent interview with Amelia Magazine, and it’s as good as place as any to start. Taking its cue from the clipped, deliberate beats of post-punk revivalists like The Rapture and its wordy, boundary bashing, bra-snapping, tampax-trashing ethos from 80s New Wavers the Tom Tom Club, tunes like ‘Credit Card Babies’ bristle and fix with all manner of funk and reggae chops, electronic beeps and pulses before exploding into the most insanely catchy of choruses. As a culture, we seem pathologically intent on slipping things into holes, either in an effort to satisfy our love of money, as with bank cards, or simply as a result of our need to procreate – or f*ck. It’s not just the chattering keyboards sequences that get programmed – it’s behaviour.
A punky, melodic exploration of the compulsive modern psyche from the combined talents of Hirsute and Le Tigre. And as hooky as Velcro.