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| Pop and punk don't push my proverbial buttons, and I especially hate the way electronic cheese is crammed into songs sometimes just for the sake of adding some "unusual" flavour-of-the-month sounds. |
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Fortunately Performance use the electronic spangles to their advantage in creating a driving MC505 rhythm in "Dotted Line" and the floating video game harmonies of "I Know". Their tack is most definitely and unashamedly pop, but with neo-classical eclecticism drawn from a well of punk, new wave and synthpop. In the nasty and flawed taxonomy of music genres, you could describe their sound as electroclash.
Singer Joe's affected vocals are utterly fitting for the plastic electronic backdrop his bandmates provide. Catchy melodies they clearly have and a firm grasp of what they want to sound like. Performance don't mess about on either track, getting the listener into the action soon in a way that would make most electronica fans feel a bit dirty. There is no pretension here.
My feeling about electronic music of this sort is that it will battle against triviality constantly, but it would be unfair to write off Performance as a joyful but shallow group this early in their career. Besides, their computer game music sensibilities seem to fill me with warm, fuzzy feelings that make me reminisce about the heydays of the 8-bit sound. |
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| Stuart Reeves - 8/10 |
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