Bugz In The Attic
Back In The Doghouse

In my opinion, books like "Last Night A Dj Saved My Life" or "Last Love Parade" should be studied in school. And surely Bugz In The Attic have studied them, at least the first one, and have also digested it well. They have studied all the culture, music, and sensitivity that lies behind the DJ's work and behind music explicitly made for dancing. And once they learned it all perfectly, they decided to overturn it.

That House comes after Disco (and is its natural consequence) is a well-known fact. Well, in their debut album (after a renowned collection of remixes), BITA plays Disco-Music exactly as if it were the latest trend in dance, the newest genre.
They play Disco-Music updated to our times: not useless nostalgia, but an operation of class, perhaps involuntary, and the result is astonishing.

As if Chic were drawing heavily from the inebriated sounds of House and the cerebral and leg-breaking rhythms of Drum’n’Bass (as well as from Latin-Rock and a century of black music). Many were anticipating them at the crossroads, at the consecration of a genre, the Broken-Beat: they (as if they were seasoned artists with a long career behind them) surprise, and if the syncopated beat remains dominant especially on instrumental tracks, the other tracks show the most varied influences…
"Move Aside" is irresistibly Rock and loaded, "Redhanded" has a downtempo and playful aftertaste, while "Knock Me Off My Feet" is influenced by the London sound of recent years, more epic and nocturnal (for an end of the night) is "World Hurt". But the absolute masterpiece is "Don’t Stop the Music", a true driver for any body even minimally sensitive to rhythm, simply Chic or any group of the era camouflaged through an ecstatic Electro loop.

Well, from my modest point of view this is one of the albums of the year (most probably the best debut), and the only thing left for me to do is to wish the Bugz a career equally creative, while to you dear readers, one or more dancing evenings to the rhythm of these immense songs.