Dance Music is not Dead!

French disco warrior Vitalic takes a break from inventing the future to deliver his second long-playing masterpiece this decade, and the results are nothing short of astonishing. Anyone interested in the possibilities of electronic music, or anyone who feels the genre is stuck in a rut, should investigate Flashmob to hear how Pascal Arbez-Nicolas, a vastly improved musician, blends styles—disco and techno, chiefly—with such bravura that you fear for his peers. A hymn to the imagination that you can dance your face off to, this record has grace (“Poison Lips”), muscle (“Flashmob”), beauty (“Still”), elegance (“See the Sea (Blue)”), ecstasy (“Second Lives”), disco (“Your Disco Song”), and a track about a chicken lady (“Chicken Lady”). It’s pretty much perfect.



Review by SUBURBAN DWIGHT (Dazed Digital Music)