As I peeled the last orange from the basket, I suddenly realized that spring had started quite a while ago. So I squeezed half a lemon into a bowl, added a pinch of sugar, a banana, an apple, a kiwi, half an orange, and voilà—a fruit salad. Perfect with C'mon Tigre in my ears.

They play smooth and post-modern, multifaceted and delightfully kaleidoscopic, these cosmopolitan daredevils. It's the kind of stuff that's hard to find and easy to love. There's a bit of everything inside, just like in my thrown-together fruit salad, and the different flavors can be distinctly felt, fresh and playful: electrified post-rockism, rhythmic muscularity of Fela Kuti and Tony Allen, a deep yet light touch, a pinch of the best of Gorillaz, slow dreaminess à la Portishead, all-encompassing Soul vitality, and a dizziness-prone shakerism that grabs pieces of the world and turns them into a whirlwind trinket.

Noisy and refined, rigorous and slouchy.

Intriguing.

Tracklist

01   Deserving My Devotion (00:56)

02   Twist Into Any Shape (04:00)

03   Kids Are Electric (03:39)

04   Supernatural (04:02)

05   Automatic Ctrl (03:39)

06   No One You Know (03:26)

07   Ways To Make You Neighborhood Safer (01:41)

08   Burning Down (00:52)

09   Migrants (04:44)

10   The River (03:04)

11   La Mer Et L'Amour (03:52)

12   Flowers In My Spoon (03:52)

13   Sleeping Beauties (03:44)

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