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Lindstrom and Christabelle - Real Life Is No Cool
Released: 01/02/2010
Smalltown Supersound
Norway’s premier electronica boffin Hans-Peter Lindstrom takes a step back from his heady, more drawn-out work on this collaboration with vocalist Christabelle Sandoo. A vivid exercise in contemporary disco, it has that bombastic 1980s feel that’ll have you doing star jumps on the dance floor.
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MusicOMH“Accomplished, stylish and, above all, fun...” If you enjoy slapping your deelyboppers or rara skirt on, or just appreciate well-constructed pop-edged dance, you will relish the carefree abandon that runs through the heart of each of these 10 tracks...
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Guardian“An object lesson in less being more...” The result potently distils what makes him a great producer – as demonstrated by Music in My Mind and So Much Fun, his take on 1980s funk-pop is exhilaratingly woozy, psychedelic and strange, never sliding into retro pastiche...
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Dusted Magazine“A stoned plateau...” Front-to-back, Real Life Is No Cool does exactly what it set out to do and no more: be a collection of dance pop tunes so solid it feels like they’ve always been there...
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Pitchfork“A remarkable dance record...” Real Life Is No Cool isn't just the achingly stylish and neatly accessible dance record to end all that, it also constitutes a fresh new take on the strand of retro-futurism that Lindstrøm helped create...
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Drowned In Sound“A terrific album...” Like Merriweather Post Pavilion in 2009, anyone not feeling this has to live with it almost all year – but in the here and now, I feel like I’m on the side of truth, brother...
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