Chromeo is P-Thugg and Dave 1: best friends since their adolescence, virtuoso musicians, walking hip hop encyclopedias, and the only successful Arab/Jew partnership since the dawn of human culture. After spending the three years since the release of their debut album, She’s In Control, jet setting, globetrotting, and embarking on an overall sensual conquest of planet Earth, Chromeo headed back to their Montreal lab to put together album number deux.

The result, Fancy Footwork, is quite simply the most smoothed-out, hook-heavy, unabashed lovers’ funk since…Chromeo’s last album, actually. What makes this footwork so fancy, you ask? Step the fuck off and open your heart to the finest distillation of Minneapolis groove this side of Mazarati. Dave and Pee are back in the ‘07 to heal the fractured soul of dance music. Teenage lovers, 20 something blogpoders, 30 something burn-out ex-raver “graphic designers” and 40 something sistas can all finally party under one roof...and that roof has a name, AND that roof is on fire, and the only ones who can put out that funk-fire also happen to be the guys the roof is named after: CHROMEO.

Does analog synth wizard P-Thugg still rock nightgown-sized DipSet t-shirts, talk through a keyboard, and have the thousand-yard stare of a well-practiced gangster? You bet he fucking does. Does vocalist and guitarist Dave 1 still dress like a French Lit professor from 1965? Can he still ask you to twerk without coming off like an imposter? You better believe he can.

Chromeo is slick. Chromeo is dripping with reverb. Chromeo is Moog riffs, luxurious harmonies, macho guitar solos and real-deal songcraft. From the dancefloor-ready singles “Fancy Footwork” and “Tenderoni,” to the autobiographical Jew-boy ballad “Momma's Boy,” to the epic sax-laden album closer “100%,” Fancy Footwork rolls you through a sleek, melodic world where all you need to worry about is whether you’ve got your sunglasses on and the right moves to keep up. Remember the debate when Chromeo first came on the scene? The endless back and forth about whether those boys were joking or not? Well, Fancy Footwork will put any vestigial haters to sleep forever. There ain’t nothing “ironical” about this music. It’s Hall & Oates riding on 22’s, busting shots in the air with Quincy Jones driving. That shit ain’t funny.

So there you have it: Chromeo, the band reborn...the sex, the beats, the dream, the suits, the gloves, the laughs, the tears, the past and the future. All rolled up into one big blunt, smoked up through Pee’s talkbox tube and exhaled into your brain. Enjoy.

http://www.myspace.com/chromeo
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Love it to bits!

I think there just being Ironic.

Not my cup of tea at all.

Cheesy 80's style pap.

TheKnowledge said:

They aren't ironic at all. In fact, they rail against it quite often.

So there for real.

thats maybe worse.

I guess you like Har Mar Superstar also.

I definately would buy it if these dead ass record stores in my area would carry the album.

TheKnowledge said:

I like Har Mar. You can feel me is a funky little album but he ain't nowhere near the funkiness of Chromeo.

Chromeo rule. Best group of the decade, for me there saviours of modern music.

They deserve to be massive

vainandy said:

Can't you just order it from Amazon or something.

I may get my local record store to order it themselves. I try never to order from the internet because I don't like my credit card number floating around. I also hate the calls it brings from telemarketers (telemarketers should be lined up and shot ).
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I'm on their MySpace now, and it sounds NOTHING like Minneapolis Funk.

Not 2 bad though.

TheKnowledge said:

Never heard of them. But you think Stevie Wonder is lame, so there goes your cred.

vainandy said:

Did you hear the samples I posted on the other thread? They may work for you!

Moonbeam said:

Har Mar Superstar is a small fat bolding bloke from minnesota.

He's got a bit of Prince influnce. He is very hard to take seriously and shouldn't be. He's made some decent songs nothing great but he's funkier than Timberlake.

TheKnowledge said:

hey i love me some har mar superstar and i also like Chromeo. Hey, if prince won't go back to being prince, someone has to! why not these guys?

They were blocked on these computers also.

It's time to move to California

vainandy said:

I'm going to have to send you a disc.

I hated the one song i heard, but I'm willing to give another shot...