Dragonette - Body Parts

I'm excited about this album and the prospects of how good it is going to be. The first tracks I've heard from the album are excellent and I'm becoming a huge fan of Electro-Pop music. Robyn's brillant trio of E.P.'s really set up my direction of interest to this genre. I've now become a fan of Dragonette's style and skillful growth making some of my favorite music in the last few years.

The trio has unleashed a high energy intoxicating mix of swirling keyboards and soft sweet vocals with more hooks than a fisherman's tacklebox. The way the group manipulates drum loops to create near perfect dance rhythms on each track is pretty sophisticated stuff that is usually overlooked by most when listening to the genre. Now with that said not every song is a ten spot on the rating scale but that is impossible even with epically great albums like Darkside Of The Moon or LZ IV or MCR's Black Parade. This album comes super close to being an album on that level but misses with the arrogant dance track "My Legs" that isn't bad just a little dull in comparison to much of the music contained here.

When the grooves are at their top level you are rewarded with the stunning and brilliant "Let It Go" or the astute and gracious "Giddy Up" along with "Rocket Ship" that is one of the greatest disco influenced dance floor jams of the last forty years. When you run this through a big sub and some excellent tops this songs astounding power is truly unleashed. The greatest dance song ever in my opinion is "Groove Is In The Heart" followed by "Staying Alive" and this song is easily their equal when it comes to being a great dance song. The album closes with two more fierce Electro-Pop tunes with "Riot" being a cerebral assassin because it just drives into your brain and makes itself at home for the rest of time. When the last track plays by I get a little riot girls Joan Jett feel from it that gets me excited to listen to it all, all over again. All fans of Electro-Pop should be buying the album and making it a number one seller because it deserves that and a whole lot more.